Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
Throbert has BEEN to the CIA headquarters at Langley and got to go on a tour! Biggest surprise: Their large collection of Abstract Expressionist paintings, including artists like Jackson Pollock. Second biggest surprise: The experimental "роботическая стрекоза" from the 1970s. Total non-surprise: Like a lot of the CIA's big ideas, the robot-dragonfly did not actually work. (Or, rather, it worked in the laboratory, but only if they turned off all the fans and air-conditioners, because the slightest breeze made it crash.)
And to think, all I got to do was drive by there while we were in DC for the "Rally to Restore Sanity" a few years back.

(Unfortunately, our rally did not succeed in restoring sanity)