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From the post: "The airship — its snow-white steampunk profile visible from the busy 101 highway — has taken drone technology such as fly-by-wire controls, electric motors and lidar sensing, and supersized them to something longer than three Boeing 737s, potentially able to carry tons of cargo over many hundreds of miles.

“It’s been 10 years of blood, sweat and tears,” LTA CEO Alan Weston told TechCrunch on the eve of the unveiling. “Now we must show that this can reliably fly in real-world conditions. And we’re going to do that.”"

Archive: https://archive.today/c1Z0i From the post: "The airship — its snow-white steampunk profile visible from the busy 101 highway — has taken drone technology such as fly-by-wire controls, electric motors and lidar sensing, and supersized them to something longer than three Boeing 737s, potentially able to carry tons of cargo over many hundreds of miles. “It’s been 10 years of blood, sweat and tears,” LTA CEO Alan Weston told TechCrunch on the eve of the unveiling. “Now we must show that this can reliably fly in real-world conditions. And we’re going to do that.”"

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Probably would not need even 10 shots and I am sure there are plenty of easier ways to take one down these days. I was thinking more along the lines of them being slow and having a small carry capacity for how god damn huge they are and if a big storm comes in you have no way to navigate them properly other than going to ground if you can.

On the other side.. For short distances that you would normally drive for 3-4 hours.. Having a calm ride on one of those for 3-4 hours while you have a great view and can just hang out or get some work done would not bother me.

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Without doubt I would LOVE to ride on a blimp. I would take it across the country. You could probably rise above most bad weather.

I just don't trust the psychotic element of society.

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It really is amazing how many people take pot-shots at aircraft/balloons/etc. I had a former boss that did a lot of radio tower work and said that people would randomly shoot up their gear and even had some jackass take a couple of pot shots at one of his tower climbers.

When he rolled up on them and told them to GTFO he asked what the fuck they were thinking and are they trying to murder his guy. They were so damn dumb that they didn't seem to connect 2 and 2 together that if they actually managed to hit the guy he would probably die. It was a long time ago in the middle of now where so he just told them if he sees them again he will shoot them on sight and to leave.

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That is crazy. I wasn't even thinking of genuine crazy people. I was thinking of government-related sabotage.