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In Case You Ever Wondered Why Contracts Are So Expensive
For a second I could have sworn that was straight from a -10 manual…
Not F-35?
Man, that’s amazing.
M. C. Escher rock this one out while drunk on a side job? :p
My first thought,too!
Have fun putting that together! >_<
All this to connect the deherpulator to the fignutt. Those damn capitalists!
This must a component of the Rockwell Turboencabulator.
Good thing Mr. SSD didn’t go on to the electronics side of the mess. All the nonsense about out-sourcing Flux Capacitors…
And the Chinese have stolen the plans, and made it for $.14 cents.
…they rounded up on the hexnut…great…never gonna find those surplus.
I love the Pi reference.
You can’t tighten any of those nuts without a left-handed sky wrench.
At least you can’t cross the streams.
Righty-tighty, leftie-tightie ?
Wait I see it, now I lost it wait I think no I lost no, I got it, hold on, yeah that’s it wait no that can’t be right nope I lost it.
The requirements document for this widget is either a phonebook sized monstrosity with a 90 page section of signatures, or a half page memo written by the prime contractor on program office letter head with no signatures and hand jammed classification markings.
What’s funny is I have actual seen engineering drawings that are not quite as bad as this cartoon, but pretty damn close… and you ask the guy who designed and the token response is “looks good in the 3D model”.
+1
Yeah no kidding. This is the kind of stuff that’s funny only afterwards.
I actually assembled one of those once. It resulted in a tear in the space-time continuum and the summoning of Great Cthulhu.
I was going to give this to one of my techs, tell him it’s a universal antenna bracket and to get one made. But then I thought he might do it and it would cost us $2.5M.