Petrochemical Engineer Pillows

'It's a shut-and-open case.'

Thinking Gears

Cutaway view of Ocean liner.

"In twenty seconds, our crew will be traveling fast enough to escape the Earth’s problems."

Rare earths are the key to a greenwashed, technotopian future

'Are we nearly there yet?'

'The good news is we've discovered a vast new oil resource. The bad news is we need a space ship to get there.'

A massive ship pulls in in Central Park.

Matryoshka/ Russian Gas Cylinders

underwater knight

Largest passenger aircraft ever built. "Why does it have to be so big?" "We had to make extra room for all the subsidy money."

Baby being fed using a lego construction.

The Wright brothers discover the first nightmare flight

'I'm a do-it-yourselfer, but I've never been a done-it-yourselfer...'

'Well, well - this should create a nice little wave of panic and hysteria.'

No Cheap Fuel Ahead: Easy Street Ends.

Before they settled on water, shower pioneers experimented with a number of alternatives, including spaghetti,

'How can I get my baby to sleep?'

'How long have you operated multi-engines, sailor?'

Ship upsidedown in a bottle has rescue boat in bottle next to it.

Impatient Oil Drillers LTD.

The Brief collaboration Alfred Nobel And Thomas Edison

'I'm getting some unusually high readings around you.'

'Wait, wait, before you mix them, you have to say, 'Pow!'.'

Cars feeding at a gas tanker on the side of the road

Tugboat tugging Iceberg

'Look on the bright side: now we qualify for an energy-conservation award.'

"Read me one more, Daddy!"

"How about this? We carpet the road and use the resultant static electricity to power our electric cars."

'... And that's where I'm seeking planning permission to build a secret uranium enrichment plant...'

Is this what they call inherent safety?

Molecules You Ought to be Aware Of.

'You'd better have a little talk with it - it wants to know where it came from.'

'I'm inventing an acid that eats through anything.'