Plausible... A hackney carriage which was formerly used to inspect railways stations in Kumla, Sweden by S. D. Wingqvist, the father the of founder of S.K.F. could have later been imported to the pre-1860s United States.

Nope, sorry. The closest I could get with my admittedly botched job at matching the angles and perspective is one propeller blade hidden behind the guy. Unless they lost two props in flight the other two should be poking out from behind his back or head, they probably looked odd so in post to they were removed in PS.

I bet its the same alternate reality where Pontiac is still around and all of their cars are built on variations of the RWD Kappa and Zeta platforms.

Minivans suck. I leased a loaded Grand Caravan.

Yeah, A really forward looking auto company could basically prepare designs now for the perfect vehicle to sell 20, 40, 60 years into the future. No more having to rush the development of a minivan or crossover in order to capitalize on a trend. Same thing with small things such as rear taillight designs. Just map out…

Yup, it's the classic "I don't want to drive my kids to school in the car my parents drove me to school in" sinusoidal waveform.

Ok, if thats the case then AAA game publishers need to redefine the social contract they have with their customers. Because right now the publishers are saying that they are selling fully developed games (for $60) and always seemed surprised and defensive when they get negative PR when customers find bugs in the…

There is a difference between not affording something and not wanting to pay for something. EA could easily perform QA on all of their games by reducing their marketing budget by 10%. I am sure they are wasting more than 10% of their marketing budgets just fighting the bad PR generated by their horribly buggy games.

Yes, but my comments in this article reside in the mad mad mad The 2014 Oldsmobile Cutlass Is Better Than Ever world. The same world where brand new BMW 6 series look like 15 year old Pontiacs. My first post here in the article was a tongue and cheek reference to Orlove's article but with the sarcastic brand reference…

I don't get what you mean? The car I posted above is manufactured by the American car company Honda(one of the American big three, Honda, Toyota, and Lada). GM on the other hand had just kicked some serious ass in the World Rally Championship with the then just released third generation Chevrolet(a sub-brand of GM)…

... which when released ended up being a Belgian built Opel Kadett wareing Harley Earl's knickers.

Thats a nice looking 6th generation Cutlass Supreme convertible. I am so glad they split the Cutlass Supreme sedan/coupe and convertible into two different platforms so the Cutlass convertible could go back to it's 1960s rear wheel drive roots. It's a shame Oldsmobile dropped the convertible model with the 7th and 8th…

I hear the 2015 BMW 6 series shares a platform with the 2014 Honda Accord!

If your enemy as developed heat dissipating armor to counter laser based weapons I could see the Navy using a small caliber gun or rail gun to first damage the likely delicate ceramic or heat exchanger based antilaser armor then follow up with the target tracking high power laser.

I know that this has probably been posted multiple times as the similarity is striking, but I wonder if the writers of SMBC Theater's Battleship Cathy short helped work on this Pixar project?

A job interview 20 years from now:

While this vehicle has the bulbous build of a crossover, Mercedes says "occupants are led to believe that they are in sports rather than off-road mode." If the high ride height confused you about that, just look at the gaping air intakes and steamroller wheels with up to 22" of bling. It all says speed,man.

QUICK! SOMEONE FETCH ME THE GOAT CHEESE FRITATTA SKILLET! No, not the Western Frittata skillet, you MORON!

Yes the fact that they put "Bond" on his parents grave stone does put a hole in the code name theory. On Reddit however, someone posted that all of the Bond movies could be thought of as someone reading the post-incident briefing files and rather than simply redacting the agent's name MI6 replaces it with the stand-in…

Yeah, if he had killed a bicyclist the NYPD would have given him a medal.