NYC is a top tourist destination in the world. 50 million people visited in 2011.

Let's just end the Star Trek stuff here.

Shadow planes — usually just to observe that nothing is going wrong and communicate with the pilots.

Bigger please, my desktop is aching for that

That's all right, it's retconned anyway.

Even worse than I remembered — E, 2/4, 4/4.

Oh, the CITY

Maybe Houston can restore a wreck. Project Buran Hell?

Yes, it's a prototype. Doesn't even have engines or orbital maneuvering rockets, and the heat shield is fake.

or more technically this:

Technically this:

We don't deserve it, but (a) it's only Enterprise, and (b) people from around the world will get to see it.

It's not about finding stuff; it's about putting stuff up there that can help us find stuff (i.e. Hubble).

Oh and I think my fuel gauge reads empty, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, full

Or das uniblinker — left, right, hazards, yes all one signal.

Because like so much of the environmental movement it wasn't really about what it said it was. It was about artificially stimulating a failing economy and helping two government-owned carmakers move product.

Watch out for bridges!

Meh, the LSX cars got better mileage than sixes and turbo fours

And direct injection... and VVT... and cylinder deactivation... and better transmissions.

What if you're beef-fueled? Moar CO2