Business, space colonization and CBRN defence

Learjet 35A The pointed nose is derived from the Swiss FFA P-16.

Open sesame!

Super Hawaii Powerboat (1992) Super Hawaii (based in Florida, ironically) was a powerboat manufacturer that existed in 1992. They were absorbed into Interpid Powerboats that same year.

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I never realized cigarette companies were so into æsthetics until I started this channel. But it is logical. When a product can no longer be "improved upon", the only thing left to spend money on is the design and the "eye pleasure" factor.

Chariot in the Sky, breaking the Firmament.

NEED A RIDE? Space Commerce Corporation (SCC) poster in the late 1980s. SCC partnered with Glavkosmos to send tourists into space. The rockets listed are: 🚀 KOSMOS 🚀 VOSTOK 🚀 MOLNIYA [sic] 🚀 SOYUZ 🚀 PROTON 🚀 ENERGIA-BURAN 🚀 ENERGIA 🚀 TSYKLON And, at the end, a cosmonaut is pictured for scale.

📶 Figure 7.1 Remote login is a lot like astral projection.

The garden gnome

Sony PalmTop PTC-550 (1991) Successor to the PTC-500, one of the first handheld keybord-less computers. You can see the (wired) stylus it used for input. Don't mind the White model used for the ad, the PTC-550 was exclusively for the Japanese market.

Let us ponder the XF-108 Rapier

PAN AM First Class

AMCC (Applied Micro Circuits Corporation) Combining the nerdy 80s and corporate culture in the U.S., it shows how AMCC's products (semiconductors for computers), could help fight the FCC (presumably due to faster processing of bureaucratic norms). There are other "easter eggs" in the picture, see if you can find them.

Every time I hear about a bunch of "scientists" ask a a random word generator (a.k.a. AI) if it is sentient and it magically responds with "yes", this image is what is going through their head.