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What exactly about this is possible? It's utterly ridiculous. Slightly less so than your comment though.

• andrewclunn 11y ago
  It's from 1930. Speculation about the future in the past. That's the interesting aspect, not the idea itself.
  • orf 11y ago
    Utterly ridiculous things are often the most interesting, I didn't say otherwise. The social justice bit of his comment irked me though.
• mitchtbaum 11y ago
  > What exactly about this is possible? http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/06/green-slow-air.html http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/06/green-slow-air.html Long-term, helium looks to have issues though, especially if we slow down natural gas mining. Perhaps we could find a tenable balance between helium and hot air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_airship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_airship
  • orf 11y ago
    Airships are indeed possible, I hoped it was obvious I was referring to the hospital part of the idea.