Posted on 05/12/2018 7:00:58 PM PDT by artichokegrower
One man's 'innovation' is another man's boondoggle. For a conservative forum, it's off how frequently government failures and overspending is greeted with panglossian drivel. See any F-35 thread you care to find.
“How could they possibly slap the Ford name on something and not expect it to have warrantee issues?”
Yes, as kids, we were always told that FORD meant “Fix Or Repair Daily.” The “less nice descriptor” was “F*cked Over Reworked Dodge!” That said, my first car was a 1929 Model A Roadster Pickup, and today 50 years later, I wished that I had it back. It did have a “Bowtie heart” though. Power came from a 1956 Chevrolet V8!
And look for any of the old threads relative to the V-22 Osprey. There were so many comments here bashing the aircraft.
The Marines and Air Force are very happy with the aircraft!
Oh, yeah! None of the equipment in our military forces works right at all. If those close, overseas relatives of our coastal liberaltarians attacked us right now, we’d be defenseless!
[A little more irony and sarcasm there except for the close relatives part.]
;-)
Yep. An American’s innovation is Ivan’s boondoggle.
...or Hitler’s boondoggle. Oh! Did I say it?
Someone needs to take a shot of vodka. That’s the rule of the new and improved Ivan of the Internet. And oh, no thanks. I don’t drink. Ivan can take that shot of potato whiskey for me.
;-)
May that name never be after USS.
Very much needed as the Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu are ready to set sail any day now.
building the Saturn V rocket
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Not to worry, no one remembers how to fire the Saturn engines, if they still had a working one ...
For simplicity sake, what DOES work on this lemon?
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The lesbian brigade ...?
Because we don’t have Wernher von Braun anymore.
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Because we educate and train so few engineers these days, most of whom go into the high tech silicon valley sorts of companies.
Ship design? Weapons design? That’s why we import Chinese engineers ...
On the other hand, electromagnetic launch is very cool!
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Cool, but only capable of launching a handful of planes an hour, currently.
The Chinese are building a new carrier hull with EMALS as well - non-ski-jump set up - (they also have rail gun mounted on a test ship).
> It would be a shame if one of these boats was not named after Donald Trump, but only dead Presidents get so honored. <
No government ship, building, road, etc. should be named after a living person. But it happens all the time. And don’t forget the USS George H.W. Bush. So there is a precedence for the USS Donald J. Trump.
I’m sure there’s some H1B’s we can teach weapon design to. ;-)
they said exactly that about the f-16. they said exactly that about the bradley. they said the same thing about the last enterprise. they said the same thing about the v-22. the point is, they say this a lot. a LOT. they usually turn out to be wrong.
. . . and you can stick your comment about “panglossian drivel” in your tailpipe.
Just as long as there is never a USS Bill Clinton or Barak Obama. That would be a travesty.
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