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
Would had been so cool if it wasn’t so lame. So many technologies you root for that just don’t pan out. Hovercrafts, rocket packs, flying cars, mass transit. Ugh we can’t have anything cool.
Blimps ARE NOT lame 😡
Agreed.
Hovercraft: They’re not exactly common in the U.S. but the U.K. has a bunch. You can even buy a personal one for like 30K… not exactly cheap but not unattainable.
Flying Cars: Theoretically there’s the Molor sky car with its 9 Mazda engines… but with gas prices… and the whole lack of an untethered demo, stick with the hovercraft.
Rocket Packs: Primary problem is they burn off your assmeats. There is actually a “Rocket Man” though. Ieves Rossi or something like that. IIRC he actually sells the suits. And there’s a few folks who still make the 70’s era peroxide jet packs, but you only get like 90 seconds.
Mass Transit: California is building a high speed rail line 😂 The networks will probably always be imperfect at best, but the rise of small EVs (bikes, scooters, etc.) seems poised to bridge the gap.
Just a heads up to any comrades looking to get into rocket packs – the US DOJ went after John Gotti for flying around with an unlicensed rocket pack and hunting Nazis out of season
Going to need a link for this…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gotti
ROFL 🤣
lmao “building” doing a lot of heavy lifting here. That project has been in the works for like 18 years and has a “projected” completion year of 2030-2033 with many components of it like tunnels and coastal extensions to serve cities between San Francisco having no projected completion date and it is realistically decades away from completion (if ever). It’s an absolute joke.
Yeah… hence the laughing until I cried face. I don’t really expect the project to advance much beyond the low speed dirt bike track that it currently is.
This is my point I want them to be easily utilized beside obviously awesome.
One out of 4 ain’t terrible… and depending on where you live mass transit + an e-bike/scooter gets you two.
Hydrofoils!
USSR built a lot of them of various types.
Flying cars are just helicopters.