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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?
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3 comments:

  1. eonMonday, 29 November 2010 at 02:59:00 GMT-8

    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

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  2. Chris LopesMonday, 29 November 2010 at 11:29:00 GMT-8

    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.

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  3. IronmistressMonday, 29 November 2010 at 23:45:00 GMT-8

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

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