Aug 24, 2012
A dreamy whitish whale floating through the sky, (re)proposed by my friend Esau Kessler on a blog of his, way back in 2008 - still very fascinating!
seen from Russia
seen from Italy
seen from United States
seen from T1
seen from Japan
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from Australia
seen from Russia
seen from Latvia
seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from Brazil
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Bangladesh
seen from Yemen
seen from Philippines
seen from United States
A dreamy whitish whale floating through the sky, (re)proposed by my friend Esau Kessler on a blog of his, way back in 2008 - still very fascinating!
Helium Investment Reason #8102: Airships
So, Lockheed Martin came out with an airship a little while ago, and I'd like to just take a second to completely freak out about airships in general.
It's so beautiful! It crashed. But last year, developments in Control of Static Heaviness (COSH) supposedly overcame the historical airship setbacks.
I just think they're really handsome:
Tiago Barros' Passing Cloud!
Vincent Callebaut's Hydrogenase Airship/Castles!
Jean-Marie Massaud's Manned Cloud!
Rune Kirt and Mads Thomsen's Knarr Cargo Airship!
etc.
These are all touted as being sustainable, and that's only partly true - - a lot of the models use helium, which is usually derived from natural gas. And, solar panels as they stand now happen to be pretty carbon intensive to produce. (This will of course change with *graphene*!)
But besides that, they can fly below other air traffic levels, handle massive cargos, easily access infrastructure-poor areas, house ballrooms, and form the dreamiest trailer park I've ever seen.