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I just love them so much. Everytime I watch historical footage from the early 20th century I get very sad over the zepplins and blimps. I wish I could see them floating through my sky on a daily basis just doin stuff that isn't solely advertising. They are the closest we have to sky whales. I just love that they float around like that, very joyous and whimsical. Fucked up we don't make use of them anymore. I bet this makes them as sad as it makes me. Relatively low energy cost btw.
I've cried over this while drunk more than once. Think of me next time you call blimps useless technology
There was a startup like 20 years ago trying to get them to be used for trucking/shipping purposes iirc. Guess it didn't work out. If used with hydrogen instead of helium, that can be more cost effective. I've only seen the Goodyear ones a few times when some kind of sportsball event is happening in the metro.
Supposedly they are constantly getting shot at in the states. I recall seeing some docu show where one of the pilots or maintenance folks mentioned finding small holes in them quite often after flying around.
Hopefully we see fusion power in our lifetimes and helium becomes a cheap commodity. I feel it is unlikely but every night I go to bed dreaming of this future.
Anyway that last bit is the most american thing I have heard all day lmao
In the states I definitely would not want to fly low altitude in general. As a kid an Apache was flying over my house it hovered stopped I pointed my BB gun at it it flew away. Detente.
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