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    Image of aec007 aec007
    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    I think someone's been watching "Battle for Terra" too many times...
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    Hop in my zeppelin, it's the shape of a whale, and it's about to set sail!
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    Did you know that many buldings in chicago were built with zepplin landings on the roofs... After the hindenburg they were repurposed but many are still there. Imagine a 15 min commut in a crowded city to the airport at the top of a skyscraper.
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    Image of jinushaun jinushaun
    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    Pretty concept, but the designer isn't very familiar with the laws of physics... This thing will not fly as designed.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    I can't be helped but be reminded of this.
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    Image of Matthias Ackerly Welsh Matthias Ackerly Welsh
    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    Anyone else having Hitch Hikers Guide come to mind?
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    10/14/09

    @Matthias Ackerly Welsh: More like "The Fifth Element"
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    Oh the huge manatee!
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    ...just jumping in to say

    KLM IS GONNA ROCK YOU! \o/ |o| _o_
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    10/14/09

    @cynep: Last blimp to Transcentral!
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    Image of Derek Erdmann Derek Erdmann
    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    It takes 85 more years to have technology that was in the Watchmen universe in 1985? Reality sucks.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    Forget Jumbo-Jet, enter Orca-Air.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    I'd be pretty surprised if United existed at all 20 years from now, let alone 85.
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    Image of jdale jdale
    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    Beautiful. But the view would be better if the seating was in the lower half and not the top, and that would probably make it easier to get passengers on and off, too.

    How does wind power work on an aircraft? You're expending energy to move relative to the air. If you then extract energy from the motion of air relative to the aircraft, that will slow you down. On the other hand, you have a very large top surface which seems like it could be a solar collector, if you can keep the weight down (e.g. dye/film type solar collectors).

    Lastly, this will be slower than an aircraft. How much cheaper would it be for a passenger?
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    Image of MarcusMaximus MarcusMaximus
    10/14/09

    @jdale: By weight, I'm assuming you mean mass? Since when this thing is full of helium it'll have negative weight?
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    Image of jdale jdale
    10/14/09

    @MarcusMaximus: Actually a lighter-than-air craft will not have zero or negative weight. Negative weight is impossible without anti-gravity. The overall craft will have a density that is lower than air at the altitude that it flies. That is achieved by keeping the weight as low as possible (e.g. materials with high strength relative to their weight) and keeping the volume as high as possible (e.g. by having a huge compartment filled with very low density helium). Even plain old air has a positive weight. Helium also has weight, it's just lower than air so it has net lift.

    In any case, I am talking about the weight of the solar cells themselves, not the total weight of the vehicle.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    With daily flights to the Olympus Mons Off-World Colony, the Tycho Crater Anomaly Research Station, and scenic Lakehurst, NJ.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    I hope he is able to get some royalties off his original design
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    10/14/09

    @BergenCountyJC: God accepts tithes, first borns and sometimes the occasional virgin.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Beautiful Concept Airship Looks 85 Years into the Future
    At first glance I thought this was a picture of Shamu.
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