Richard Saunders: Subby's headline, as big as a whale.

Your what? Tin roof, rusted!

Awesome! I'll bet there's a few million Southeast Asians, Iraqi and Afghan survivors who'd be tickled pink by this news! Or maybe tickled black.

Way to go American Empire for your amazing technology!

wont_eat_bugs: I wonder what six CURRENT Boeing engineers could design with nothing but a slide rule and some balsa. And a pencil. I'll let them have a pencil.

A slide rule with a spoiler, that writes.

El Freak: The man helped design a weapon that was built to kill thousands of people at once. He did nothing but bring more misery and suffering into the world. Forgive me if I don't shed a tear.

Slide Rules?

/nuffin

saying it evolved from earlier plane designs and not a little luck

novel wings with engine "pods" positioned underneath - became the standard for almost all commercial jet carriers.
y u no mention b-47?

El Freak: The man helped design a weapon that was built to kill thousands of people at once. He did nothing but bring more misery and suffering into the world. Forgive me if I don't shed a tear.

Exactly. The person who invented gunpowder? Monster.
Doctors and medics who tended to soldiers, of whom many such soldiers later ended up killing other people?
Monsters.

I work with an ex-B-52 navigator who flew during the cold war. He was telling me how he trained with the sexton and how the navigators now probably have no idea how to use one of those now days. Oh and how scary it is to fly a big plane like the B-52 low like they used to practice in case they needed to bomb the shiat out of Russia.

Primum: Awesome! I'll bet there's a few million Southeast Asians, Iraqi and Afghan survivors who'd be tickled pink by this news! Or maybe tickled black.

Way to go American Empire for your amazing technology!

Thanks!

Primum: Awesome! I'll bet there's a few million Southeast Asians, Iraqi and Afghan survivors who'd be tickled pink by this news! Or maybe tickled black.

Way to go American Empire for your amazing technology!

All the people behind the iron curtain sent to the Gulags were George W Bush's fault!

/The Soviets weren't racist about who they sent to the death camps - that makes it OK!

El Freak: I'm not going to cry over a mass murderer. Sorry.

Unintentional troll is trolling none the less.

El Freak: logieal: El Freak:

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I'm not trolling. I'm just being honest about what he did. The man helped kill thousands of people, nearly all of whom were innocent and died for no reason other than they happened to live in the wrong place. He was less than shiat. The only sad thing about his death is that he lived to 94. I'm not going to cry over a mass murderer. Sorry.

Seriously! Everyone knows the Soviet threat could have been easily countered with hugs, kisses and cuddles!

/ Those who fail to learn the lessons of recent history
// Are doomed to be morons forever

You probably couldnt get a group of 6 people to agree on a date for a meeting to discuss the possibility of potentially designing plans for a theoretical new bomber at this point in time.

/maybe

El Freak: logieal: El Freak:

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I'm not trolling. I'm just being honest about what he did. The man helped kill thousands of people, nearly all of whom were innocent and died for no reason other than they happened to live in the wrong place. He was less than shiat. The only sad thing about his death is that he lived to 94. I'm not going to cry over a mass murderer. Sorry.

Could also be said about the inventor of the longbow, compound bow, crossbow, cannon, musket, rifle, battle axe, broadsword, scimitar, javalin, mace, warhammer, slingshot, sharpened rock and pointed stick. Humans are violent by nature, get over it.

El Freak: logieal: El Freak:

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I'm not trolling.

That's a pity, 'cos as a troll you're kinda funny. As someone being honest, you're a complete retard.

At first I was like this...



but then, I was like this.

ArcadianRefugee: El Freak: logieal: El Freak:

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I'm not trolling.

That's a pity, 'cos as a troll you're kinda funny. As someone being honest, you're a complete retard.

THIS

ArcadianRefugee: El Freak: logieal: El Freak:

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I'm not trolling.

That's a pity, 'cos as a troll you're kinda funny. As someone being honest, you're a complete retard.

+1

El Freak: The man helped design a weapon that was built to kill thousands of people at once. He did nothing but bring more misery and suffering into the world. Forgive me if I don't shed a tear.

Wow, Im generally not for Abortion, but someone should have taken a coat hanger to your mother...

El Freak: logieal: El Freak:

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I'm not trolling. I'm just being honest about what he did. The man helped kill thousands of people, nearly all of whom were innocent and died for no reason other than they happened to live in the wrong place. He was less than shiat. The only sad thing about his death is that he lived to 94. I'm not going to cry over a mass murderer. Sorry.

Correct. Every person who contributed to the the airplane, the car, the assembly line, the printed word, the laws of physics, the principles of mathematics, the written word, and language is a MASS MURDERER. Each of these things led to the mass slaughter of millions of lives and their potential offspring, and those that study it are personally responsible for whatever affect their invention has on the world.

It would be better to just say you're a troll. The alternative is to be a fool.

That is one fuel efficient plane!

El Freak: logieal: El Freak:

I'm not trolling. I'm just being honest about what he did. The man helped kill thousands of people, nearly all of whom were innocent and died for no reason other than they happened to live in the wrong place. He was less than shiat. The only sad thing about his death is that he lived to 94. I'm not going to cry over a mass murderer. Sorry.

As Von Bruan said, "The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet."

Funbags: That is one fuel efficient plane!

yep...

maybe this?

El Freak: The man helped design a weapon that was built to kill thousands of people at once. He did nothing but bring more misery and suffering into the world. Forgive me if I don't shed a tear.

If it makes you feel better, he had Alzheimer's disease.

Mildot: El Freak: The man helped design a weapon that was built to kill thousands of people at once. He did nothing but bring more misery and suffering into the world. Forgive me if I don't shed a tear.

Wow, Im generally not for Abortion, but someone should have taken a coat hanger to your mother...

This is exactly the kind of reasonable, classy response that reminds me of why I read the comments section of Fark more often than I read the linked articles. Makes the day fly by.

Sun Worshiping Dog Launcher: Mildot: El Freak: The man helped design a weapon that was built to kill thousands of people at once. He did nothing but bring more misery and suffering into the world. Forgive me if I don't shed a tear.

Wow, Im generally not for Abortion, but someone should have taken a coat hanger to your mother...

This is exactly the kind of reasonable, classy response that reminds me of why I read the comments section of Fark more often than I read the linked articles. Makes the day fly by.

Sorry, but he really pissed me off -- El Freak either diesn't have a brain in his head or chooses no to use it. Either way, he's a waste and is simply taking using resources that others could use.

StrangeQ: Could also be said about the inventor of the longbow, compound bow, crossbow, cannon, musket, rifle, battle axe, broadsword, scimitar, javalin, mace, warhammer, slingshot, sharpened rock and pointed stick. Humans are violent by nature, get over it.

What about fresh fruit?

El Freak: Yeah, those are EXACTLY the same. Those other things were designed for purposes other than the deaths of thousands of human beings. The B-52 was designed to cause mass death. THAT'S IT. That is it's only real purpose. It wasn't designed to carry passengers or cargo. It was built solely to kill people. He had nothing to be proud of and his death was not nearly painful enough. fark him, and fark you people who constantly fellate the assholes who cause this shiat.

I love how pointing out exactly what this thing is designed for is considered trolling. Take the military dick out of your mouth for once.

After reviewing the history of the B-52 and the role it has played in the US military engagements over the years, I am inclined to agree. I think that the role it played in the Cold War was an important one in that it acted as a deterrent toward the Soviets. Beyond that though, it has been used to basically kill people in a series of wars that we've been waging over the last few decades.

I'm a baffled that Fark enjoys condemning the military-industrial complex to such a high degree (to say nothing of condemning the Gulf War 1 and 2 wars and Vietnam), and yet is so willing to defend something like the B-52 and its creator(s). The B-52 is one of the great early and enduring successes of the same industry that is constantly vilified here day in and day out. If so many Farkers detest the relationship that military contractors like Boeing have with our government, why is El Freak such a horrible person for pointing out that the B-52 is a killing machine that did alot of killing in the service of a country who has been waging wars regularly since the inception of the bomber?

Mildot: Funbags: That is one fuel efficient plane!

yep...

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The joke flew over your head further than a B-52.

Sun Worshiping Dog Launcher: I'm a baffled that Fark enjoys condemning the military-industrial complex to such a high degree (to say nothing of condemning the Gulf War 1 and 2 wars and Vietnam), and yet is so willing to defend something like the B-52 and its creator(s). The B-52 is one of the great early and enduring successes of the same industry that is constantly vilified here day in and day out. If so many Farkers detest the relationship that military contractors like Boeing have with our government, why is El Freak such a horrible person for pointing out that the B-52 is a killing machine that did alot of killing in the service of a country who has been waging wars regularly since the inception of the bomber?

I can't speak for others, but I criticize the military-industrial complex due to the amount of money it uses and wastes. The B-52 is one of the most cost-effective programs ever. What the government does with the tool is another story, but I won't criticize it or its designer for it.

In 1948, six Boeing engineers checked into a hotel with slide rules and balsa wood. They emerged three days later with the B-52, which is still flying after its last designer died this month

... into a hotel in Dayton, Ohio ...

Dammit, that's the most important part.

El Freak speaks for me. The B-52 is one of the larger exames of the success of the military-industrial complex over American democracy, responsible for untold thousands of deaths, wasted money, and an exemplary example of the triumph of fear-based politics.

I will also shed no tears over this man's passing.

Sun Worshiping Dog Launcher: I'm a baffled that Fark enjoys condemning the military-industrial complex to such a high degree (to say nothing of condemning the Gulf War 1 and 2 wars and Vietnam), and yet is so willing to defend something like the B-52 and its creator(s).

For my own part, I'm not a fan of the institutional behaviour of many defence companies - particularly as regards lobbying and how certain contracts are won; I also don't often seem to agree with decisions about when to use military force. I approved of Libya; I can't understand why under the same doctrine we're leaving Syria to twist in the wind.

However, putting politics to one side, I can appreciate an efficient machine. For all that the B-52 was an ugly farker, it did the job it was designed to do very well.

I personally don't think there's anything inconsistent in even the most anti-war activists appreciating that the designers did their job well.

/I think the Panther tank was the best tank of WW2, doesn't make me a Nazi

bbfreak: I work with an ex-B-52 navigator who flew during the cold war. He was telling me how he trained with the sexton

I think you meant 'sextant'. A sexton is a church official.

Sun Worshiping Dog Launcher: I'm a baffled that Fark enjoys condemning the military-industrial complex to such a high degree (to say nothing of condemning the Gulf War 1 and 2 wars and Vietnam), and yet is so willing to defend something like the B-52 and its creator(s).

One can appreciate the workmanship and design of, say, a Kar-98k, and still denounce the government that used it for great ill.

dittybopper: bbfreak: I work with an ex-B-52 navigator who flew during the cold war. He was telling me how he trained with the sexton

I think you meant 'sextant'. A sexton is a church official.

The sexton showed him how to calibrate his dowsing rod

El Freak: Khellendros: Correct. Every person who contributed to the the airplane, the car, the assembly line, the printed word, the laws of physics, the principles of mathematics, the written word, and language is a MASS MURDERER. Each of these things led to the mass slaughter of millions of lives and their potential offspring, and those that study it are personally responsible for whatever affect their invention has on the world.

It would be better to just say you're a troll. The alternative is to be a fool.

Yeah, those are EXACTLY the same. Those other things were designed for purposes other than the deaths of thousands of human beings. The B-52 was designed to cause mass death. THAT'S IT. That is it's only real purpose. It wasn't designed to carry passengers or cargo. It was built solely to kill people. He had nothing to be proud of and his death was not nearly painful enough. fark him, and fark you people who constantly fellate the assholes who cause this shiat.

I love how pointing out exactly what this thing is designed for is considered trolling. Take the military dick out of your mouth for once.

A fool it is, then.