Category: Technology

SR-71 Blackbird

This is an old story about an amazing piece of technology:

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. But 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…

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041

Discovery

“My battery is low and it’s getting dark.”

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/14/1834859/-The-most-beautiful-thing-I-have-ever-read-on-reddit-Thank-you-eleanorbartlet

“the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

“and they told us to tell you hello.”

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