<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Blonrop <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />*LOL* Now THAT is funny!<br /><br />Actually, it's eerily reminiscent of a fake ad I made a few years back to help my brother put together a "newspaper from the future". (It was an insanely stupid assignment, all part of the abominable Profile of Learning that a business major turned educational commissioner foisted on the state of Minnesota's public school system.) It was entertaining, BSing about future developments. For the "ad", I took a stock picture of an SR-71 Blackbird, put in front of a CGI cloudscape, and then faded the SR-71 so you could see through it. We called it the CSR-71 -- implying that the "C" stood for "cloaking". (My whole family likes Star Trek, what can I say?) Anyway, the part that got my mom chuckling (but which sadly went over the teacher's head) was the logo at the bottom. I used a font similar to the one used in the Lockheed logo and credited the whole thing to Boeing-Lockheed. (Or maybe it was Lockheed-Boeing. I can't remember now. I'll have to see if I still have a copy of that file floating around anywhere.)<br /><br />At the time, I was joking about how the aerospace industry seemed to be globbing together into one big conglomerate, without seriously expecting that to happen....<br /><br />That said, I still don't expect it to happen immediately. This isn't a merger, by any stretch of the imagination, and will not affect the competition between the two (and other aerospace companies) in other fields. This is more like International Launch Services, the joint venture between Lockheed and RSC Khrunichev to sell Atlases and Protons on the international market. They're not giving up their own pieces of the pie, nor are they merging. They're banding together to make sure there's a future for the industry. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>