The craziest part about the Hindenberg disaster for me was that 2/3rds of the people on board survived. And I guess also that they had a smoking lounge

China uses them for logistics in Tibet a lot! They're great for short repetitive trips that moves really heavy stuff in difficult terrain

Back in the day before helicopters rich dudes put blimp mooring posts on their skyscrapers was the old timey private jet

Afaik the empire state building still has it's planned mooring post

born in the wrong universe to get turned to paste alongside your comrades trying to bring down invading coalition airships with nothing but revolutionary plasm

born in the right universe to get deep-sixed by a delivery drone for hanging solar panels from your balcony

They could be covered in solar panels and swoosh silently through the skies.

A lot of technology we consider obsolete is truly just not profitable for our overloads, look at how many people are using mp3 players again, look at how many people are listening to records again. It is important that we remember old tech so we can revive it if we want in a better world and destroy the tech we don't need like fucking crypto farms and ai data centers.

I saw the Goodyear blimp fly directly overhead once and it was cool as shit.

this is what they took from you

Kirov reporting.

I hope that blimps make a comeback. They could be used as drone carriers (like aircraft carriers), and could recharge the drones with solar power. And if they were unmanned, then hydrogen would be more more acceptable.

Only if you have an unlimited supply of birthday grade helium.

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.

Wow, i forgot blimps existed holy shit. I only saw one once in my life overseas, two decades ago and never saw it again (I live in a developing country, we don't have this stuff. It was somewhere in europe iirc?) Now that I remember it, how the hell could i forget about that? There's something so mind-boggling about it just slowly floating in the air, and a beautiful sight

Fuck everything else we need to RETVRN to fucking rad blimps

For me the saddest example is the Ekranoplan.

Just look at how cool (and kind of terrifyingly) this thing is!

Google money is trying to bring it back :https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/18/san-francisco-blimp-lta-research/

ive been inside the hanger for the goodyear blimp and its so massive it makes you feel nauseous

v cool

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