Wow. Their jokes are just as dumb and awkward as their new products are.

Shit. What a way to go.

Well, for starters, you're about three degrees removed from working in actual aerospace so I wouldn't call the lingo a bunch of CAD artists use 'right'. Although perhaps according to Oxford, 'hull' is applicable to aircraft, the only people who call the shell of an aircraft a 'hull' are people who don't work with…

Maybe even quad-hull? IIRC the Typhoon has an outer shell, an inner pressure hull, and then the two inner habitation hulls. The Russians got very good at sub design towards the late 80s. Thanks, Johnny Walker!

"One captain of a submarine, in real life, nearly sunk his own vessel because he messed up using the toilet. He ended up surfacing, where his sub was spotted and bombed. And there's nowhere to surface in space."

What this shit is, and the fact that you have to replace that shit every once in a while.

A hull? Are you being serious right now?

Da, ze Russians vould like to have a word with you.

All joking about Volts aside, there's a good possibility that the engineers were simply testing how far they could push a lithium battery (aka destructive testing), and found out in a big way. Perhaps some safety protocols weren't being followed?

All these people have overlooked one critical detail that renders all of their hypothesizing moot.

I WANT ONE OF THOSE BUTTONS!!!!!

I'm still in the Navy, and I've seen a machine or two that still uses punch cards.

The test benches I fix (well, the older ones, but there are still plenty of them out there) run a MicroVAX computer with OpenVMS as an OS. No tape reels, but it has a 20lb 5.25" SCSI hard drive with a whopping 4GB of space. Pretty good for the late 80s!

I hold it as a point of particular pride that I can manage to weasel my hand down in there.

"Yet today, you'd be hard pressed to find a machine capable of reading it."

Wouldn't it be loading and not loading at the same time?

Shit, I missed seeing this one! Not that it matters though, the one good one I have is from long ago.

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There's a lot to be said for the simplicity of words. :)

Yeah, you're probably right. Navy's now saying the cause was catastrophic engine failure, and the engine on an F/A-18 starts well after the wing ends. Perhaps it lost a horizontal stabilizer? That's big enough that people might confuse it for a wing, and it's conceivable that a catastrophic-enough failure might cause…