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Of course fires are 'bad' - if you're a bear or a deer. Fires are adaptive for the organisms that produce them, that is, pine forests, which use fire as part of
by astazangasta 11y ago
Of course fires are 'bad' - if you're a bear or a deer. Fires are adaptive for the organisms that produce them, that is, pine forests, which use fire as part of their natural ecological cycle (by filling the forest up with fire-promoting oils and dry tinder) to wipe out competition and proliferate.
We only have a problem with this because we still live on the ground. If we lived in airships, like I've been suggesting all along, then forest fires would become a wonderful natural spectacle, and people would pilot their airships to the Rockies for the summer just to catch a view.
- eridius 11y agoBig wildfires would still be a threat to airships. I'd imagine that piloting a ship in the near vicinity of such a fire might be dangerous, because it will have some sort of effect (I admit I'm not entirely sure what sort) on the airspace above and around it. But maybe you can view it from a distance.
- bsima 11y agoomg this is hilarious
- chadzawistowski 11y agoEveryone living in airships, really?
- RogtamBar 11y agoHydrogen is the second most abundant element in the universe..
- clock_tower 11y agoAlso absurdly flammable -- the Hindenburg was flying on hydrogen. I certainly wouldn't want to be in a hydrogen-filled airship floating above a forest fire! (Helium would work better, but I think it gets pretty expensive.)
- astazangasta 11y agoYou don't need a gas. Just use fixed-frame volumes made of, say, graphene layers and fill it with vacuum. As long as your frame can hold the required force, no problem. There might even be metallic foams that do the trick.