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Nevertheless the Blackbird wasn’t an easy plane to fly as SR-71 pilot Brian Shul recalls in his book Sled Driver. “There were a lot of things we couldn’t do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane—intense, maybe, even cerebral.”

However according to Shul “there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment.

I’ll always remember a certain radio exchange that occurred one day as Walt (my back-seater) and I were screaming across Southern California 13 miles high.

We were monitoring various radio transmissions from other aircraft as we entered Los Angeles airspace.

Though they didn’t really control us, they did monitor our movement across their scope.

I heard a Cessna ask for a readout of its ground speed.
’90 knots’ Center replied.

Moments later,a Twin Beech required the same.
‘120 knots,’ Center answered.

We weren’t the only ones proud of our ground speed that day…as almost instantly an F-18 smugly transmitted, ‘Ah, Center, Dusty 52 requests ground speed readout.’
There was a slight pause, then the response, ‘620 knots on the ground, Dusty.’

Another silent pause.

As I was thinking to myself how ripe a situation this was, I heard a familiar click of a radio transmission coming from my back-seater. It was at that precise moment I realized Walt and I had become a real crew, for we were both thinking in unison.
‘Center, Aspen 20, you got a ground speed readout for us?’
There was a longer than normal pause … ‘Aspen, I show 1,942 knots.’

No further inquiries were heard on that frequency.”

a.lo posted:

how about instead we get universal healthcare in this country

B-Rock452 posted:

Can't wait for Elon to invent the transportation system used in The Jaunt and for every dipshit fan boy to excitedly talk about how clawing your eyes out from insanity is what he meant to have happen and why can't you see what a genius he is.

MadJackal posted:

Everyone is high on ether today. That’s my only explanation for things.

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

a world without trump is a broken world

B-Rock452 posted:

Can't wait for Elon to invent the transportation system used in The Jaunt and for every dipshit fan boy to excitedly talk about how clawing your eyes out from insanity is what he meant to have happen and why can't you see what a genius he is.

MadJackal posted:

Everyone is high on ether today. That’s my only explanation for things.

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

What's up?

The Chairman posted:

elon starts out proposing the transportation system from the jaunt, but 10 years later it turns out to be taking two benadryl before you're packed into the trunk of a tesla

The Chairman posted:

not much, what's up with you

The Chairman posted:

elon starts out proposing the transportation system from the jaunt, but 10 years later it turns out to be taking two benadryl before you're packed into the trunk of a tesla

SirPablo posted:

It's a tunnel but really it's a water slide and it goes to hell.

The Chairman posted:

elon starts out proposing the transportation system from the jaunt, but 10 years later it turns out to be taking two benadryl before you're packed into the trunk of a tesla

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Gripweed posted:

Britain pretends to be a real country but then goes into eight days of mourning because the queens consort died.

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Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can hang out with bears and wolves and elk and eagles in their weird southern California forest hell. If for some reason you do this type of thing, you definitely can't ride the raptors into battle or utilize their extremely keen eyesight. Not from that particular vaccine.

Being vaccinated does NOT mean you have to rub vanilla crème all over your body and change your species, but it wouldn't be the worst idea, if you’re considering it.

Being vaccinated does NOT mean your child can ride on a bull made of solid gold to rodeo into a castle full of bad guys. Even if everyone else in St. Louis is doing it.

Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can travel through time and multiple realities. Fortunately you're still the same good-hearted grade schooler you were before you walked out of that basement with two items in your hand. One was the ability to restore the Dragon Balls, and the other was the recipe for the world’s best green bean casserole.

Being vaccinated does NOT mean you're okay with a man beleaguering you with song, also known as singing.

Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can use an incredibly powerful magic necklace to turn yourself into a football player so you can smuggle some footballs into football practice so football players can play football.

Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can kidnap the Emperor of China, tear up some of your China-based robotics studies, mix in some magic, and fly around on robotic falcons shooting grappling hook crossbows that reel in the scarf of a big greased wizard. This is a bad idea.

Red Baron posted:

he’s about to reinvent greyhound and they’ll eat it up and can’t wait to spend 10 hours packed in with strangers breathing each other’s farts

five minutes before reaching the destination there will be a 90% chance the bus explodes.

TMMadman posted:

Let's just go ahead and build a tunnel starting in an area that is seismically unstable and it will go under 2 mountain ranges before traveling through several states that are obsessed with fracking the entire state into oblivion then under the Mississippi river and then under another mountain range and an ocean in order to get to new york.

TMMadman posted:

Let's just go ahead and build a tunnel starting in an area that is seismically unstable and it will go under 2 mountain ranges before traveling through several states that are obsessed with fracking the entire state into oblivion then under the Mississippi river and then under another mountain range and an ocean in order to get to new york.

DryGoods posted:

make an aqueduct from NY to LA where you can hyper-jet ski in 2 hours

The Chairman posted:

elon starts out proposing the transportation system from the jaunt, but 10 years later it turns out to be taking two benadryl before you're packed into the trunk of a tesla