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imagining ff4 Cid going "b-but!" like he's in a Kelly cartoon

it's missing the "awww :(" step

get out of my head!

the problem it solves is that we do not have giant airships, just sayin'

Okay but... what if

Sure, giant airships won't SOLVE the problems, but I feel like they'd deliver more fun problems.

I'm old enough to remember the model of the Hystar airship that flew inside under the soaring roof of the Canada Pavillion at Expo86, Vancouver's world's fair. So when the problem was, "What best represents the future of logging in 1986?" The answer was giant airship. youtu.be/LFE42UqT1Dg?...

Aeros, Flying Whales, I’m looking at both of you. www.flying-whales.com/en/latin-ame... aeroscraft.com/blog/revolut...

All fun and games until you're sitting near the tip of one of the wings and the plane starts banking/turning

The Guild Wars 2 version of this chart says "yes" and then ends.

Boundary Layer Control is meant to reduce the amount of drag from a boundary layer, i.e the thin layer of fluid (in this case air) right up against what is moving through that air. I think it mostly involves slots in the fuselage, not suction cups, and more streamlining, in this case.

It's discussing the amount of horsepower needed for an airship at different speeds, with and without boundary layer control. I believe this is from NASA's 1975 "Feasibility Study of Modern Airships: Phase 1, Volume 1". Unfortunately the links I used before to find it seem to be broken.

“But we could park it at the top of a skyscraper!” Narrator: they could not, in fact, park the airship at the top of a skyscraper.

I thought of this same clip!

B-But blimps!

lol. I can’t say that I’ve ever heard this suggested im any of the clean sheet development meetings I’ve been a part of. Now I feel like I’m missing out.

"Yes" pipe but it just leads to a decision point that says "yeah but REALLY?" and then a "fine, no" pipe to "try other solutions"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik9W...

Well, maybe things will come full circle once again... www.lanl.gov/media/public...

Randall. I bet YOU could understand the global-emotional system. I wonder if I can explain it well enough yet.

Kim Stanley Robinson approves

The problem no one wants to admit is that passenger jets are too fast.

somehow, this fits in both my main follow reasons.

We should be more curious

While impractical for most situations, flying an airship gives you an excuse to blast menacing Holst-inspired Super Mario Bros. 3 music.

A submarine is basically a metal zeppelin.

This is the way.

For an XKCD flowchart, this one is surprisingly simple to follow.

One day…

Start again.

Honestly, I'm not interested in any solutions that do NOT involve building giant airships again.

There's one that flies out of there. It's called Pathfinder 1.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropica...

Nein nein nein! Mehr zeplins! youtu.be/LGM9q08ZMkE

And the solution? DON KARNAGE!

What is: large scale transport logistics in northern Canada for $400, Alex?

If you're still experimenting, I wouldn't mind if it was a little darker

"But what if..."

Haha... yeah, the fact that it's a giant flying sail at the mercy of the wind is kind of a problem for the "dirige" part of "dirigible".

😂

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I feel seen

Where's the path for a yes?

Colonizing Venus? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Al...

Oh the humanity!

This is how LLMs got introduced everywhere. My employer created their own GPT thingy, then sent out internal mails asking for help "identifying use cases for customers".

Solve global warming: Giant airships to reflect the excess insolation.