Commanded, of course, by Captain Fred Schneider.
It wasn't a rock, it was a ROCK MONSTER!
Well, it is as big as a whale.
Good ol’ Fred.
Ridiculous.
As if they'd ever have a new model B-52. The original ones will be just fine if you want to fight the Romulans.
They're doing it right now. They are re-engining the B-52 and giving it a new designation, B-52J.
Still eight engines, though, huh? I guess they couldn’t just the additional work needed to move to four. It’d be more fuel efficient to move to four big engines instead of eight smaller ones, but it’d require strengthening the wing and doing something to increase the steering forces. If you loose an engine when you only have four engines, you loose twice as much thrust as you would have in an eight engine layout, so the remaining three need to work harder, and you have more unbalanced thrust then you would have with 7/8, especially if you loose one of the outboard engines.
