/ y'all are slippin'

Are they just going to steal someone else's plan and then market it as their own again?

I know whre this is headed. And no sir.



I don;t like it one bit.

/deleeeeeete

They never left...

(Alternate) New York City already has them.

I think they'd be a rather enjoyable way to travel, but I can't see the market for "relaxing but slow as hell trips" being feasible.

PepperFreak: I think they'd be a rather enjoyable way to travel, but I can't see the market for "relaxing but slow as hell trips" being feasible.

lots of people still take cruises. an overland cruise seems like it could do well in certain areas.

kind of expensive compared to a ship though, and how they can pack them in

in pog form?

what_now: FloydA: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Sure, Jason Bonham is a fine drummer, but it's not really Zeppelin. Also Plant's voice isn't what it used to be. Let it go, man, it's over.

True, but I'd still pay money to watch Jimmy Page play.

just needs a repeatin

Oblig:

markie_farkie: Randy approves!

First thing I thought of too

Finally, a form of travel that's both extraordinarily slow AND highly combustible.

what_now: FloydA: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Sure, Jason Bonham is a fine drummer, but it's not really Zeppelin. Also Plant's voice isn't what it used to be. Let it go, man, it's over.

True, but I'd still pay money to watch Jimmy Page play.

I'd say Jimmy Page's diminished skills are the biggest dissapointment of the bunch. Plant's voice is still servicable... its just different. Page can't play no more.

Obviously no one read TFA. Which has nothing to do with modern Blimps, but is just 4 paintings by some dead dutch painter.

But carry on with your pictures of modern Zeppelins and Robert Plant jokes.

PepperFreak: but I can't see the market for "relaxing but slow as hell trips" being feasible.

Tell that to the cruise ship industry.

DeadZone: PepperFreak: but I can't see the market for "relaxing but slow as hell trips" being feasible.

Tell that to the cruise ship industry.

Yeah, there's that.

Also, they'd probably make every one of those steampunk roleplayers pop 20 boners at once.

dehehn: Obviously no one read TFA. Which has nothing to do with modern Blimps, but is just 4 paintings by some dead dutch painter.

But carry on with your pictures of modern Zeppelins and Robert Plant jokes.

That's what I thought too. I thought 'Oh Snap! You mean someday soon I'm going to be able to take a lengthy zeplin cruise through Canada's Rocky Mountains?' And then I saw it was about some crappy artist's old paintings and was all like 'wtf subby you dick?' At least this thread has a manatee, because otherwise it's a complete failure and the ruination of a man's dreams.

DjangoStonereaver: The zeppelin has been 'coming back' since at least the mid 70s,
but never so spectactularly as the Zeppelin NT project. (new window)

I see this one flying around the Bay Area all the time:

Does not approve of this article.


/"Uh hello, planes? It's blimps. You win."
//Wants a room in the Led Zeppelin Suite

Dirigibles would be good for cargo to remote areas. If you can't build train-tracks there, you certainly can't land a plane there.

But that's a pretty small market, and people who live is remote areas like that don't always have cash to afford zeppelin shipments.

Can't we just have 'em cuz their cool?

Came for the Archer reference, leaving happy.

It's been a long time...

Cold1s: Dirigibles would be good for cargo to remote areas. If you can't build train-tracks there, you certainly can't land a plane there.

But that's a pretty small market, and people who live is remote areas like that don't always have cash to afford zeppelin shipments.

Can't we just have 'em cuz their cool?

You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin',

But that's a pretty small market, and people who live is remote areas like that don't always have cash to afford zeppelin shipments.

They have to settle for Black Oak Arkansas 8-tracks.

how cool would that be.

Tickets please

They've been back for a long time. I see several each time I visit a shopping mall.

/approves

Zeppelins were *COOL*.

We need to overcome our fear of hydrogen. It's twice as buoyant as helium, and not a finite, irreplaceable resource.

All we need to do is surround the hydrogen gas with an inert gas. Then make the ship out of fireproof material.

I'm guessing maybe half a km long or so.

ahem:



Won't light if you shoot flares at it. You could shoot incendiary rounds clear through it, and it still wouldn't light.

You would somehow have to light the hydrogen in the presnce of oxygen *outside the ship* and even then you'd just get a little flame. Fireproof fabric won't catch.

No really, somebody will build these.

/paging Elon Musk, Elon Musk please pick up the white courtesy telephone.

ActionJoe: (Alternate) New York City already has them.

So does Gotham.

Somewhere in an alternate universe, another me is reading a story about how jet engines on fixed-wing craft will be making a return and wistfully wondering what that might be like. He's reading this from his holographic wristwatch display onboard the company Zeppelin while preparing to take his broadcast-electric powered autogyro down to the skypad on his office building which is a magnificent Art Deco structure some 450 storeys tall.

Oh, and he has a goatee, of course.

flaminio: DjangoStonereaver: The zeppelin has been 'coming back' since at least the mid 70s,
but never so spectactularly as the Zeppelin NT project. (new window)

I see this one flying around the Bay Area all the time:

Blimpin' ain't easy.

If you have airships, you'll have airship pirates

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: If you have airships, you'll have airship pirates



le sigh