Question about Yoyodyne

[David Morris]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyodyne
“The "dyne <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyne>" is the standard unit of
force <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force> in the centimetre–gram–second
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centimetre%E2%80%93gram%E2%80%93second_system_of_units>
(CGS)
system of units, derived from the Greek
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language> word dynamis, meaning
"power" or "force".

Yoyodyne was introduced as a fictional defense contractor in Thomas Pynchon
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon>'s V.
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.>(1963) and featured prominently in his
novel The Crying of Lot 49
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_of_Lot_49> (1966). Described in
the latter book as "a giant of the aerospace industry," Yoyodyne was
founded by World War II <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II> veteran
Clayton "Bloody" Chiclitz. The company has a large manufacturing plant in
the fictional town
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_fictional_locations> of San
Narciso, California <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California>. The name
is reminiscent of several real high-tech companies, including the Gyrodyne
Company of America
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrodyne_Company_of_America>, Teledyne
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledyne_Technologies> and Teradyne
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teradyne>, all of which were founded a few
years before Pynchon wrote The Crying of Lot 49.

The 1984 film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension>
used
the name Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems for a defense contractor whose
corporate offices feature the sign, "The future begins tomorrow". Yoyodyne
is a front for a group of red Lectroid aliens

Numerous references in the Star Trek
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek>series, such as control panels
and dedication plaques, indicate that parts of Federation starships were
manufactured by Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems or YPS.




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> Yo-yo (like the toy)
> Dine (as in wine & dine)
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> Some might say “deemed”
> But probably only if they were British.
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