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What’s your favorite product that you’re not a user of but admire from afar?

Yeah I've come to the conclusion that my answer is undoubtedly SR-71

Why:
- Operated at 85,000 ft, at over Mach 3 (~2100 mph)
- No SR-71 was ever shot down, because Mach 3
- 1 hour flight from SF to NYC
- A special titanium body out of it from scratch for it
- Absolutely bonkers

Yeah I've come to the conclusion that my answer is undoubtedly SR-71

Why:
- Operated at 85,000 ft, at over Mach 3 (~2100 mph)
- No SR-71 was ever shot down, because Mach 3
- 1 hour flight from SF to NYC
- A special titanium body out of it from scratch for it
- Absolutely bonkers

https://warpcast.com/jayme/0xba21812e

The story of having to source the titanium from Russia just adds the whole lore around the thing:

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

The story of having to source the titanium from Russia just adds the whole lore around the thing: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90b00170r000100080001-5

Im the guy that posted all those factory memes once

forgot about that one! that's a great story