"Nah, looks like there should be just enough metal there we could probably just turn those rotors and they'll be good as new - you won't even need to buy new ones!"

The city of Huntsville, AL has a richly memorialized love affair with Dr. von Braun: he city convention center is named after him, there's a building at the local university with his name on it, there a vaguely creepy almost-shrine to him at Marshall Space Flight Center to say nothing of the smaller, overlooked…

I agree with all points of your post save the last paragraph, which I what I'll be addressing.

Well, let's approach it this way.

There's a number of reasons why there aren't supersonic commercial aircraft, but the answer boils down to the fact that there aren't customers for one.

"My name is Andrew Ryan, and I come to you today with a question: 'Is a man not entitled to hurtle under the Atlantic Ocean at crazy fast speeds on a magnet train?'"

That's the point I was driving at here, but honestly that mangling of word usage and terminology was de rigour in this article. Focusing on it as much as I did was surely inefficient.

I'm well aware of the logical progression that states fewer cylinders (really, less displacement) means lowered fuel consumption means better for the environment. I get that.

This revelation is more mentally disturbing than that Ayerton Senna japandering commercial.

So what you're saying is if I put a turbo in a Tesla, I'll be like super environmentally friendly?

I would still like some explaination, from CNN of course, as to how turbo engines are more 'environmentally friendly' than normally aspirated engines.

Nothing makes sense anymore. The walls of the world are closing in on me, driven by the unheard, mad laughter of that woman and Ayrton Senna and a bitingly 80s-mid 90's soundtrack.

SHUT UP!!

...So are you telling us that you are, in fact, a clutch?

+1 ACL torn on Friday

No offense taken, but in defense of my profession I just want to say that despite the attitude of some engineers, we don't shit gold and most of us put pants on one leg at a time like everyone else: we're human.

As an engineer and a car enthusiast, this also comes up for me.

As a long time resident of the Bondo bastion that is the American South, let me assure you, sirrah, that the Bondo does indeed cover everything and can be used for everything - it has effectively covered up the incompetence and shortcomings of many a mechanic for years!

Ah, I get you. Then the now-presumably-smaller chunks of fat will go with the wastewater down to the treatment plant to be sorted out there, then?

If I might ask, how do you effect removal of a fatberg over where you work?