Ep 443: Roto Rooter To The Rescue

Hey, did you hear that NASA may be bringing the SR-71 back? Ah,

man, that is one cool-ass airplane, but I don't know why you'd bring that

back.

Actually, I think Eric Humby, our editor, nailed it, but apparently NASA's been contacting it.

Have you ever seen Space Cowboys? Yes.

One of the just great movie, old man movies, and we didn't know that we had, in Clint Eastwood's case, this old man around for another 30 years.

But the whole idea is he's the expert on antiquated space technology.

That's sort of what NASA's doing with the SR-71s.

They're contacting all these old technicians and engineers.

They're like, I'm in my 80s.

What do you want from me? I made a joke that maybe it's going to be renamed the SR-71 Trump Blackbird, and he's going to use it exclusively for college football game flyovers.

Paint gold on the wingtips.

Paint gold on the wingtips.

But actually, Eric had a really good point.

When you reverse engineer things, you have to first get it back to where it was.

So they may be working on either hypersonic technology or a baby Blackbird, something like that.

Because from a tactical standpoint, SR-71 is superseded by a long shot.

This came out...

Back in the 60s, you still had film in the belly of this thing before digital cameras.

Getting pictures back from space was spotty at best.

And now we can see... uh, what time somebody goes to the bathroom from space.

Yeah.

From the satellite.

Yeah.

I, um, I'm kind of an aviation just more or less like it interests me.

Hey, did you hear that NASA may be bringing the SR-71 back? Ah,

man, that is one cool-ass airplane, but I don't know why you'd bring that

back.

Actually, I think Eric Humby, our editor, nailed it, but apparently NASA's been contacting it.

Have you ever seen Space Cowboys? Yes.

One of the just great movie, old man movies, and we didn't know that we had, in Clint Eastwood's case, this old man around for another 30 years.

But the whole idea is he's the expert on antiquated space technology.

That's sort of what NASA's doing with the SR-71s.

They're contacting all these old technicians and engineers.

They're like, I'm in my 80s.

What do you want from me? I made a joke that maybe it's going to be renamed the SR-71 Trump Blackbird, and he's going to use it exclusively for college football game flyovers.

Paint gold on the wingtips.

Paint gold on the wingtips.

But actually, Eric had a really good point.

When you reverse engineer things, you have to first get it back to where it was.

So they may be working on either hypersonic technology or a baby Blackbird, something like that.

Because from a tactical standpoint, SR-71 is superseded by a long shot.

This came out...

Back in the 60s, you still had film in the belly of this thing before digital cameras.

Getting pictures back from space was spotty at best.

And now we can see... uh, what time somebody goes to the bathroom from space.

Yeah.

From the satellite.

Yeah.

I, um, I'm kind of an aviation just more or less like it interests me.