Clueless Boeing upper management who decimated their engineering culture: “Just strap a rocket to a 757 and point it straight at the ISS. That’s a thing, right?”

Oh, that’s very interesting to know -- thanks!

On a vaguely related topic, I recently saw pictures of the airbrakes on the F-16. It’s quite unexpected (I’m more used to seeing a big rectangle stick out the top of the fuselage)...

Yeah, that’s what I’ve generally seen -- the President would not be allowed to board a V-22.

I’ve always wondered -- if the President of the United States boards a V-22 Osprey, is it Marine One while taking off and then Air Force One once the rotors tilt into horizontal flight mode?

To be fair, it is a *really* stupid joke XD

The Tesla Model 2: a guy in a zentai suit with wheels glued on his shoulders and legs. (With $500,000 per build slot for the ‘Foundation’ edition...)

Other potential VP candidates who just missed the cut:

Although when working on an Escalade, you may prefer an escalator...

Sounds like an opportunity for a very unusual Blue Beetle Elseworlds comic...

A man was arrested for stealing a steam engine. His lawyers used the insanity defense.

Meanwhile, in the documentary about looking for a sunken boat in an old railyard:

If this were an episode of G1 Transformers, Soundwave and the Constructicons would show up at the scrapyard to turn these rejects into terrifying Decepticon warriors. Tracks and Raoul would be sneaking around trying to stop them, while Starscream and Megatron turned Optimus Prime’s body into a robot alligator and let…

Old locomotives respond well to a little tender loving and care...

Oh, of course. (That looks frightening if it were to just fall out of the sky...)

These wouldn’t be the conformal ones that go on top, right? (I don’t see how you’d jettison those.)

For a second there I thought you meant it was plated in some sort of gold alloy...

Do they also have a Yamaha Champions Piano School?

A special sitting room for marching band drummers to hang out and play together? That sounds great!

That is really cool. Before this, the most interesting car I ever saw in New Zealand is whatever the hell this is: