GE Beetle, designed and assembled between 1958 and 1961, was a shielded vehicle meant to work on nuclear powered bomber planes.

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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 15 pts · 146d (5 replies)

Good ol General Electric

Washing Machines
Refrigerators
Electric Stoves (before they were cool)
Helicopter Front-mounted Machine Guns
Shielded Nuclear Plane and Sub Maintenance Vehicles

Sure, they looked dumb and weren't very spacious, but I guarantee you some stuff they built in the 50s are still seeing heavy use today.

benignintervention@piefed.social · 14 pts · 146d (4 replies)

And then Jack Welch entered the scene and destroyed the company and also hundreds of thousands of lives

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 6 pts · 146d (2 replies)

benignintervention@piefed.social · 3 pts · 146d

You right

setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 146d

In the words of Alec Baldwin: "You've got to shoot your shot."

massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 3 pts · 145d

And somehow is the idol of every MBA exec.

Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 146d

Thing looks like R.O.B if he was REALLY into steroids.

PugJesus@piefed.social · 8 pts · 146d

Armored Core as fuck

Sphks@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 138d

"The interior of the Beetle was claustrophobia inducing, but it did feature an ash tray"

Of course.