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one of the saddest examples of technology becoming obsolete is the zepplin/blimp (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/chat@hexbear.net
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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

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[–] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Also blimps are genuinely useful. Like how else could you float in place in the air long term? Helicopters will run out of fuel. Planes can't be motionless like that. It's just that we are very fossil fuel coded so we use helicopters for everything and shrug at the fuel use. Is it used for mass passenger movement? No. But weather balloons are kind of the same thing for example. The tech does still get used. Just not exactly as a blimp/zeppelin. Using them as motherships for drone swarms is something that's been explored recently I think.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Really, the amount of stuff we are wasting on seriously useless things, we don't need a new MacBook every year, we don't need crypto miners, we don't need these GPUs for llms, it is ridiculous. I wish we made better use of it

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