It's here....

The story was "Kyrie" by Poul Anderson. Written in 1968 One of his best.

We'll develop a fighter that is so expensive that we can only afford to build one of them. And it will be so valuable, we won't ever actually risk using it in combat.

Remember how well this strategy worked for New Coke?

In VFR airspace, each pilot is responsible for "maintaining separation" (not running into other airplanes).

Of when I worked at MegaBig Engineering company. At the dawn of the internet, we fielded a B2B application that let employees order office supplies from our main supplies vendor online. The officially documented way of testing it when there were reported problems included ordering a cheap paperback dictionary, and waiting two days to see if it got delivered. The guy in the next office over supported the system, and his office had a helluva lot of dictionaries in it after a couple of years...

There is water at the bottom of the ocean!

But SJW shit shows are a particularly annoying subclass of shit shows.

Drop the weather forecast, and increase the cleavage.

The Apple Engineer didn't do anything that required a clearance. The two guys didn't tell him anything of significance, or let him see the actual device.

First Astronomer C'heel bowed x'is heads lower as x'e told the First Prime Ma'ggodore that the earthlings had launched a radioactive spacecraft at the beloved Mother of All. Ma'ggodre screeched out of all x'er's orifices and waved x'is tentacles in righteous anger. "Awaken the NIght Vampires! Ready the Children of the terrible Light! Load the ancient war saucers with the terrific host of our unholy forces and launch them against the third planet! Show them that there is still life on the red Planet! Dread life to be feared! Earthers must die!

"but "The Voyage of the Space Beagle" would make a great show."...... Yes, it would make a great show...called Star Trek...

Attach it to a police car.

I have a magic rock that keeps tigers away. Since I've had it, there haven't been any tiger attacks anywhere near me! The ridiculous TSA security theater isn't stopping or reducing the severity of terrorist attacks - it's cockpit security and the fact that, since 9/11, anyone who tries to highjack a plane would be ripped into little tiny bits by the passengers. Giving credit to the TSA is a joke..

"All your base are belong to us" - no wait, it says "Epstein didn't kill himself".