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I am old enough to have seen now 30 years of, "Maybe airships are coming back" articles.
by aetherson 2y ago
I am old enough to have seen now 30 years of, "Maybe airships are coming back" articles.
- card_zero 2y agoI liked the one that looked like a bum, that was the best one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_Airlander_10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_Airlander_... First flight was 2012, production starts in 2028? Maybe?
- deadbabe 2y agoKind of like VR then. Promising tech, that is always just a few more iterations away from being incredible.
- stickfigure 2y agoI play VR games on a $500 device. It's pretty incredible already.
- sleepybrett 2y agoI mean we haven't really used airships for anything except war since the turn of the century. And even in war their usecases were very specialized. It seems like a solution looking for problems.
- timbit42 2y agoMy dad's uncle is 94 and he remembers seeing the Hindenburg flying over Atlantic Canada toward New Jersey the day before it crashed and burned. He was born in 1930 so was 6 and 3/4 years old at the time. Obviously he also lived through WW2. It's crazy how much he has lived through and seen.