Monday 29 November 2010

Flying aircraft carrier

Can't decide if you want a flying aircraft carrier, a hybrid airship/aeroplane, or a vacuum propulsion system?  Then throw caution to the wind and adopt all three untrested technologies at once.

What could possibly go wrong?

3 comments:

eon said...

Of course, if it were actually built, the Powers That Be would conclude that helium was just too rare and expensive to use as lifting gas, and so it would be filled with the much more easily obtained, and much cheaper, hydrogen.

Sort of the way they decided to use solid rocket boosters instead of a manned, liquid-fueled, flyback lower step as an economy measure on the Space Shuttle. And that worked out so well, just like the tiles.

Moral; Any project has to be not only idiot-proof, but politician-proof. Because politicians are generally even more profoundly stupid than the average idiot.

cheers

eon

Chris Lopes said...

Speaking of carriers, is this http://www.edisposals.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/Disposals-Public-Site/en_US/-/GBP/ViewProductDetail-Start;pgid=MieqQ4wkQg8000A a joke? If it isn't, I can see a certain bald headed super villain stroking his Persian cat while reaching for the phone and his credit card.

Ironmistress said...

Technology is too precious a thing to be left at the hands of politicians.