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I think I have a proposition that could be beneficial to both myself and the US military.
They're busy spending billions of dollars trying to perfect stealth technology- basically, an invisibility or "cloaking" technology.
Do I have a deal for them!
For a cool $50 million (yes, only million!), they can buy my car and study it.
Seriously.
Apparently, my car is invisible to everyone else on the road. Lights on, using turn indicators, doesn't matter. Nobody seems to see me at all. Why should the military spend billions trying to develop something from scratch, when for only $50 million they would have access to something that already works, that they could reverse-engineer?
This seems to me to be a great deal for both parties. $50 million, even after taxes, will more than set me up for life. They'll save a few billion they can put towards production of the technology once they figure it out. Everybody's happy.
Oh, sure, they might have a little trouble getting it past Congress, "You want us to approve a $50 million budget item to buy a '91 Ford Tempo?? What the hell are you people smoking over there? (Barb, get the DEA on line 2 for me, will ya?)" And of course, think how embarrassing it would be if other nations found out. Can you imagine the Russians? "They're basing stealth technology off an eleven-year-old car, and they say our system failed? (much laughter)" And Sadam... he'd probably keel over dead from laughing so hard. Which would solve another problem, come to think of it. Maybe I should kick up that price tag just a little bit...
But then, I'm sure they have enough in one of their slush funds somewhere, and it could be kept a deep, dark secret.
I promise I won't tell, if they'll keep the IRS off my back.
They're busy spending billions of dollars trying to perfect stealth technology- basically, an invisibility or "cloaking" technology.
Do I have a deal for them!
For a cool $50 million (yes, only million!), they can buy my car and study it.
Seriously.
Apparently, my car is invisible to everyone else on the road. Lights on, using turn indicators, doesn't matter. Nobody seems to see me at all. Why should the military spend billions trying to develop something from scratch, when for only $50 million they would have access to something that already works, that they could reverse-engineer?
This seems to me to be a great deal for both parties. $50 million, even after taxes, will more than set me up for life. They'll save a few billion they can put towards production of the technology once they figure it out. Everybody's happy.
Oh, sure, they might have a little trouble getting it past Congress, "You want us to approve a $50 million budget item to buy a '91 Ford Tempo?? What the hell are you people smoking over there? (Barb, get the DEA on line 2 for me, will ya?)" And of course, think how embarrassing it would be if other nations found out. Can you imagine the Russians? "They're basing stealth technology off an eleven-year-old car, and they say our system failed? (much laughter)" And Sadam... he'd probably keel over dead from laughing so hard. Which would solve another problem, come to think of it. Maybe I should kick up that price tag just a little bit...
But then, I'm sure they have enough in one of their slush funds somewhere, and it could be kept a deep, dark secret.
I promise I won't tell, if they'll keep the IRS off my back.
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