Dec 24 2007Luxury Airship Filled With Helium, Rich People

Yea I wouldn't want to go on this thing either I mean look at what happened with the Hindenburg

Hah. This is awesome.

And #1, if you were unaware, the Hindenburg exploded because it was filled with hydrogen, which, as we all know, is highly flammable.

This airship is no less safe than an airplane. I think it'd be fun to travel on.

this ship looks like a whale! a sky-whale. i don't approve of the ship though.

While helium is a completely harmless gas and the ship is no more dangerous than other modes of transportatio, this seems like a waste of a natural resource. Helium is a non-renewable gas, meaning we can't just make more of it, or find more of it somewhere. It's used in MRI machines; it's what the superconducting magnets have to be kept in, in order for the machine to work. To use up this natural resource on some hotel in the sky is very wasteful.

That thing is awesome, like a big fat whale. I LOVE it!

while it "looks" neat, I agree with #3. Though it may be a plot to get a bunch of rich people, get them to sign waivers, then get them on here, make money, then have the thing go down, killing them all. Then the company takes the waivers and produce the fine print, therefore inheriting all the people's money and assets, and no more rich people. Interesting.

Ok, so to number 5. If the company did that, it would then mean the owners/operators/investors of the company would be superduperrich. Which is like the opposite of no rich people. Well, not the opposite. Just less. But richer. Mucho richer. Like, super-condensed-richness.

In other words you're too stupid to post. Or at least for me to read. So I'm gonna ignore you after I post this awesome comeback.

Mind you, you might be thinking that they'd share out the wealth to everyone in the world. Hah! Anyone that rich, and that smart, isn't gonna give out the money to all the slobs in the world. So, see my previous paragraph.

So, everyone else, you saw how I picked on that twelve-year-old, and on Christmas day, even? See, I'm pretty cool like that. That's why I totally deserve my name.

#6. wtf? You clearly fail at life and should quit. Everything I said after my first sentence was clearly me not being serious. So in this regard, you, sir, are the idiot. Also, I don't know if the twelve year old you spoke of was a reference to me or not, but if so, hah, thanks, It'd be neat to be young again.

#2
Wrong, this is a dangerous craft. Not as save as a airplane, but as save as a helicopter I would say. The issue is, if you have a problem with this thing, your going down. In an airplane you can glide. Even a big jumbo stilll has a ratio from 4 to 1 or something

i'm all excited about this one. once i release my greatest hits album on 8 track tape and cassette, in stereo, i'll be rich too!!

This thing is probably safer than your own home. It's not going to explode like the hindenburg did. And even if you run out of power, you'd just drift slowly to the ground for a soft touchdown.

Helium is extremely abundant! No worries that we're about to run out any time in the next billion years.

Blimps are extremely energy efficient. And this one looks great! I want one.

gimme some harpoons!

The worst airship disaster of all time was the crash of the USS Akron in the Atlantic in 1933. Of the 76 man crew, only three survived.
The Akron was filled with helium as were her sister ships, Macon, Los Angeles and Shenandoah.
Of these ships, the Los Angeles was the only one that did'nt crash and kill part of its crew.
Even so, I'd like to fly in one of those giants.

ok ok hold on,
helium, even though it is the most common inert gas found in the universe, is almost completely depleted here on earth, which means there could be maybe 1 or two of these blimps, but otherwise there isnt enough to go around. Secondly, giant expanses of land aren't found commonly throughout the world, how would this thing squeeze into Tokyo?

All of you are completely inane! Helium is a noble gas, completely inert, and ample enough to fill 1000s of airships. There's about 925 billion cubic feet of Helium in the world! most of it in natural gas deposits. The US alone has 400 billion cubic feet As for use of natural resources, airships do not rely on speed for lift, so propulsion units are a fraction of the size and power of regular airplanes (for those of you with brains that fit on this period . BIG TURBINE, MORE FUEL... SMALL TURBINE, LESS FUEL). That translates to greater fuel efficiency, less noise, and fewer carbon emissions. In addtion, if you coat the entire surface of the airship with photovoltalics, then the sun could provide power! As for safety, what's better? floating down to earth or plunging down at 700 mph+? As for mooring, towers are used. For those of you in NY, the needle-nosed tower at the Empire State Building was designed as a mooring mast for airships. Only problem is max airspeeds for airships are 80 mph+, 5x slower compared to the average airspeed of an airplane. Even if the airship gets upto 173 mph, it still 43% slower than an airplane. If time and speed are important, the airplane is king.