Things from the Past that Should be brought back (1 Viewer)

[JohnnyRaz]

FUCKING FINALLY

Airships for city hops could cut flying’s CO2 emissions by 90%

Bedford-based blimp maker unveils routes it hopes to serve by 2025 cutting carbon footprint of flying by 90%

www.theguardian.com

Bedford-based-blimp

what does george monbiot think

 

[Lili Marlene]

Bedford-based-blimp

what does george monbiot think

I'm sure the whole thing is a scam, "carbon footprint" and all that, but that's not my concern. Just get some idiot like Elon Musk to tweet about it all day and we'll be off and away.

 

[hydromancer]

Think it was Bruce Dickinson that invested in HAV

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I'm sure the whole thing is a scam, "carbon footprint" and all that, but that's not my concern. Just get some idiot like Elon Musk to tweet about it all day and we'll be off and away.

its probably only kinda a scam, we'll see -
apparently flares have made/will make a comeback.

when they cameback last time I was already a throwback

 

[therealjohnny]

Think it was Bruce Dickinson that invested in HAV

An 18+ minute ode to an airship. I think he likes them

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[Cormcolash]

At least 11 minutes longer than any Maiden song needs to be

 

[pete]

This thread, apparently.

Also:



WHY?

 

[egg_]

Britvic 55 will be next

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Britvic 55 will be next

I remember that being the posh fizzy orange.
the rest of us had to make do with brown glass bottles of club

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Do they fill it with helium? If so, that’s a disaster in its own way as we’re already depleting that and it’s non-renewable.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Do they fill it with helium? If so, that’s a disaster in its own way as we’re already depleting that and it’s non-renewable.

Wait until you here about petrol and planes.


Ah no, I have no idea. Could they go electric I wonder? Someone who isn't me should crunch the numbers on helium vs. oil vs. lithium etc.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Do they fill it with helium? If so, that’s a disaster in its own way as we’re already depleting that and it’s non-renewable.

sure who needs MRI scans when we can have guilt free city-breaks (just allow an extra 2 days for travel)

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Wait until you here about petrol and planes.

TELL ME MORE? But my point is that moving from one non-renewable to a much scarcer non-renewable that is acutely needed for medical scans is dopey as fuck.

 

[egg_]

A non-renewable actual ELEMENT, that can only be synthesised in the core of a star

... though in fairness an airship won't actually consume the helium. You could look on it as a form of mobile helium storage

 

[shidheat]

This thread, apparently.

Also:

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WHY?

i don't understand... catch bars or buses? both of those remain in the present / never went away

 

[pete]

i don't understand... catch bars or buses? both of those remain in the present / never went away

I know catch bars never went away but to see them being actively advertised in 2021 is… weird. What’s next? Drifters?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

TELL ME MORE? But my point is that moving from one non-renewable to a much scarcer non-renewable that is acutely needed for medical scans is dopey as fuck.

sure there's loads of helium on the moon science fiction tells me.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

... though in fairness an airship won't actually consume the helium. You could look on it as a form of mobile helium storage

Presumably any helium lost is actually lost forever though. Helium doesn't stay in the atmosphere once it gets loose, it actually floats off into space as it's too light for gravity to hold it here.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

This is a hill on which I'll die on.

 

[ann post]

I wish the buses were still green and the post was still crappy orange p&t renaults