Sea Shadow, because a vessel with this configuration cannot be used for anything BUT kicking the bejesus out of you.

Orbital Science's stock price tanked the morning after the accident. Elon's no dummy. Don't hate the playa, and all that.

As with all of the other hardware, those NK-33 engines were ordered destroyed in the wake of the cancellation of the Soviet moon-launch program. (The N-1 rockets that the Soviets didn't manage to detonate were disassembled, and their enormous parts scattered around the development sites.) The whole program was then…

"...with rocket parts, recently liberated and moving at extremely high velocity."

This is what I keep coming back to, as well.

Say, I wonder if you know an old buddy of mine who also works there. He was in charge of designing the engines for the Constellation program, but I think he's since moved on to commercial airline structures.

That's a good point.

Great article.

Ha, I was just thinking that the A-7's gear looked awfully similar to the F-16s. Neat.

But whoever you do manage to pickup with that line is guaranteed to be interesting, if not flat-out awesome.

LOOK OUT!!

"Comedy come from character, real situations, not abstract craziness."

"Comedy come from character, real situations, not abstract craziness."

I've never felt compelled to endorse heeding that message harder than after stepping out of the Lexus GX.

The company's owner, Brandon Arnold, says he'd asked the company's owner for years if he could do the work, and finally the owner said, "Can You Start Monday?"

I was at the game - don't sweat it, we were all a LOT louder than that video picked up. You can just barely hear the "LAN-DON DONO-VAN!" chant. It was cool.

It's not too shabby on The Answer, either.

100% truth. But he's the kindest, gentlest egomaniacal supervillain the world's ever seen. I'd be a henchman, no questions asked.

I will even ride on your one-way Mars trip if I can just have this for a little while.

He let out the magic smoke. That Evo is useless now.

(Nice username, btw - KitH reference?)