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I wish the billionaires would drop a few dollars into making enormous airships come back, just because they are amazing and not for profit. Even for profit, th
by jodrellblank 2y ago
I wish the billionaires would drop a few dollars into making enormous airships come back, just because they are amazing and not for profit.
Even for profit, they can lift more than anything else - build houses or appartments in a factory and float them accross the country to their destination. Then they can be bigger than road/bridge/tunnel limits. Because they are buoyant they don't need much energy for the effort of lifting (improves on airplane, helicopter, hovercraft, mag-lev).
If not that, then just for tourism / novelty / showing off. Along the lines of the beautiful (but not very economical) buildings of old - train stations, libraries, opera houses - to show off doing something grand and impressive.
- WalterBright 2y ago> just because they are amazing and not for profit Why all this angst about somebody making a profit? Why does it have to lose money in order to be acceptable? If it's amazing, who cares if a profit is made?
- washadjeffmad 2y agoProfit ≠ revenue
- jodrellblank 2y ago> "If it's amazing, who cares if a profit is made?" That's what I said. Restated: billionaires already do things which are expected to be profitable; apparently Zeppelins are not in that case and I can't argue that I think they would be profitable and should be in that case, so that case doesn't need commenting on. The case where they do things as money losers, I would like it if that case included Zeppelins. (angst about somebody making a profit) and (it has to lose money in order to be acceptable) are not things I said.