What is the point of a road trip if you can't enjoy the journey?

Lab-cultivated protein-based “leather” (like Modern Meadow's Bio-Vera) seems to be the best alternative to actual leather.

If they go to enough payday lenders at once I’m sure they can scrape together $60K!

Less Blofeld, more Hugo Drax - fortune from selling precious substances in Africa, builds spacecraft for NASA, wants to start a new civilisation in space...

“but there’s no way to collect that”

I suspect that experimental fiction is probably the wrong place to look for accurate descriptions of orbital mechanics and heat transfer...

Lorne would be a genuinely good friend and confidant, as long as he gets his shut-eye.

A minor correction: Volkanovski.

Zuckerberg can employ Bezos' "trainer".

“I'm bigger than you, I'm higher in the food chain!"

Ah yes - it was a flock of birds picked up on radar from memory?

That’s correct - he was the XO onboard rather than the CO, but he was also Commander of the Flotilla (and outranked the captain, from my understanding), so had a say in whether they launched the nuclear torpedo on board.

Perhaps an auto-correction of “expolsion”?

Vasili Arkhipov, AKA "the man who saved the world". He was an officer on a USSR submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis, who stopped it from launching the nuclear torpedo it carried in response to bombardment by the USN (who were trying to force it to surface using depth charges).

On the basis of that image, Otto Preminger would have been a great Luthor.

Pretty clearly it’s pronounced “anyone”. Remember that Al Pacino film about the virtual film star? I'm pretty sure it wasn't called swun-em-zero-nie.

They’re still worth more than our dollarydoos!

I’ve probably got a car in my house. Most of a car anyway... a good 40 percent.

Property moves fast here - a place in Tamarama just sold for a few million more ($30M USD).

Fernando?