We posted this video yesterday, but took it down soon after when we noticed an error. Here’s take 2 - thank you for watching!
@ZMB-on5ub Says:
No. I ordered a $4.99 gas chromatograph off Temu and the shipment got downed by an F-22. Costumer support is of no help.
@RonaldTindle-dt7fs Says:
Tired of looking at Lady boy presenters. Great info, creepy FTM. I find her offensive, beard or no beard......
@mirandahotspring4019 Says:
They are back! For at least the last thirty years Zeppelin NT (new technology) have been operating Zeppelin sightseeing tours over Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
@nicolasbertin8552 Says:
Whatever you do, don't let Boeing build one :D
@AnotherJman Says:
When i see an idea of a modern blimp, i can't help but think of some maniac shooting it out of the sky. I know bulletproof glass is partially made of plastic. Think the blimps will have to be wrapped in a similar material?
@Cian097 Says:
Everything i know about rigid airships is from skytanic in Archer- Lana the helium!
@user-lv2ud3zp5i Says:
It would be a great vacation adventure. I wanted to go on the Goodyear blimp. . . Too expensive 😫 🎈 Anaheim, Ca. . . Just off the I-405 Home of the Goodyear blimp.
@oscarmelendez7356 Says:
I love these videos because they provide a sense of optimism but other thing that I don’t like is when is it that we’re going to see them? I hate it that they’re gonna maybe next year I need some exact time.
@lifespurpose1 Says:
There is one more lifting gas that could be explored. It’s cheap, abundant and has enough lift to be useful. When it’s cool you can drink it. Some people call it hydrogen oxide, or it can be called oxygen dihydride, or H2O. When in fully gaseous state at a mere 100°C (lower at altitude) it has proven itself able to stay aloft despite weighing millions of tons. To prove this amazing fact just go out and look up on a cloudy day. (Actually clouds aren’t that hot, but you get the idea.) The main issue is keeping it hot. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to turn it to steam, so that would be done on the ground. It takes much less energy to keep it gaseous, provided the airship envelope is adequately insulated. Insulation is by definition low density and therefore light, so this should be possible with modern materials.
@ASMRunning Says:
Anyone else see that SUV flying down the road at 11:58?
@DiegoKeaneMusic Says:
A possible solution for the weight-lift problem: When the airship drops off the cargo, it picks up standardized blocks of concrete (or rock or metal) that, say, weigh 5000 pounds each. Then, when the airship picks up cargo at a different stop, it drops off those blocks for the next airship to pick up.
Edit: Derek stated my exact idea right after I finished making this comment
@geraldleat5970 Says:
How much is the Liability Insurance?
@dafarulia Says:
I understand your enthusiasm, but it's improbable and unrealistic to expect airships to replace trucks or ships. The primary concern is the inherent instability of the air compared to the stability and predictability of land and water. Even conventional planes are heavily influenced by weather conditions. Airships would be even more vulnerable to these factors, making them unreliable and unstable for widespread use. Factors such as wind patterns, turbulence, and weather conditions can significantly affect their operation.
@user-dq2qe3zn4f Says:
Why can't we anchor them?
@Thor-the-BlueBoy Says:
0:04 (Good Times Bad Times Starts Playing)
17:42 (Good Times Bad Times Plays Again)
@GoodGuyChris Says:
No they are totally uneffective
@1inhole300 Says:
Oh the humanity!
@theblackuy Says:
If we were making an airship until now i think we would see people traveling around the world with it
@DennisMook-ky6lx Says:
380 metres is way to long if the weight was of or the gas was not equal it would be to ridged
@DennisMook-ky6lx Says:
Imagine using the actual walls themselves as solar
@DennisMook-ky6lx Says:
It could be possible it would even be cool everyone would be up in the sky freedom but the traffic in the air would be unbelievable then you got accidents hundreds if not thousands of deaths from balloons falling from the sky . Accidents do happen explosions it be crazy. But its the future like all good things comes risk
@fulltimeshitposter3643 Says:
Could you not dig deep anchoring structures and toss a giant chain/wire of some sort down and attach it?
@razorwolf2758 Says:
because airships are cool
@shanevonknuth Says:
Regarding cargo delivery– Could you store the helium at your drop-off destination instead of venting it?
@EASYTIGER10 Says:
14:00 By definition, when you have lowered the load, you have a stable connection between the ground and the airship. Why not attach the tethers you used for the load to anchor points on the ground, then stabilise the lift of the airship at your leisure - whether by venting or even attaching another payload.- before departing.
@EASYTIGER10 Says:
Could you have a hydrogen core surrounded by Helium bags? If you needed to vent, you vent the cheap, plentiful hydrogen. If any of the helium bags are compromised by a leak, the hydrogen is better able to compensate. And the hydrogen is protected from external combustion risks like lightning or static electricity
@equableartist2295 Says:
Could Gyroscopes help stabilise an airship going at higher speeds and even aid keep it upright when unloading against high winds? Can anyone help me with this idea I have? I mean I heard that one of the reasons that Airships are so slow is stability problems at higher speeds and I feel like this would fix this problem. Anyone agree?
@gunnarkaestle Says:
Cargolifter?
@sleepingcity85 Says:
You forgot to mention that this 360m hangar is still the biggest self-supporting building in the world! It was quite a feat to build it in the first place. Not to speak about bigger ones. Interesting fact: The hangar mentioned in the video is now a water park. The owner went bankrupt trying to build actual airships.
@teeconsigliano7631 Says:
what about pirates?
@johnmurray3888 Says:
If we can use silicon chips to drive cars safely on our roads, then it should be possible to program a computer to control an airship safely and navigate it to its required destinations. Once we eliminate the need for a human crew then the risk of replacing helium with hydrogen becomes acceptable. Airships can do a lot of heavy lifting without ever flying over densely populated municipalities, most long-range transportation of cargo is over water. Helium is far too valuable a commodity to waste in party balloons, let alone venting helium from airships - which would be a criminal waste. Laws should be passed to compell the operators of natural gas wells to design-in the necessary infrastructure to capture helium. Breeder reactors can produce helium through the neutron bombardment of lithium, but helium will never be cheap or aboundant on earth - ironic when one considers the fact that it is the second most abundant element in the universe!
@thoughtstorms_keith Says:
Yeah. Job one is - do NOT paint the aircraft with SOLID ROCKET FUEL. Then Hydrogen makes perfect sense. It burns clean, it burns almost exclusively straight up, and --- can be used as fuel for propulsion, or whatever other onboard needs. The time to make this happen is 150 YEARs ago.
@massmike11 Says:
Railroads are also very efficient.
@massmike11 Says:
They would have to learn to deal withe the weather, witch has never been an airships strong point, plus helium supply is finate
@statisticallyaveragepenguin Says:
Imagine if Boeing makes the first feasible cargo airship
@calfeggs Says:
Hydrogen is the way to go.
@rachelhenderson2688 Says:
No, I don't think so. Their day has passed now, they were surpassed by the aeroplane before WWII. They took up such a lot of room compared with even a large aircraft.
@rudiwiedemann8173 Says:
YES! Right after you bring back horse-drawn carriages, Vacuum-tube televisions and typewriters.
@A-Deer-gf8dx Says:
Just used ballast like a submarine
@clayreal Says:
Lol, my guy is like, “Just Double It”
You big Blimp
@tamsynspackman7090 Says:
I've heard people say Venus would be a better planet to build a base on than Mars, but it would have to be done in an airship. So developing them on Earth could have some benefits for space travel.
@dickmartn Says:
They are a waste of helium, a finite resource. You have to drill for helium and it is found as a byproduct in natural gas deposits. Once released into the atmosphere it keeps going up dispersing into space never to return to earth. When it's gone it's gone. With the democrat's nonsense about drilling, helium reserves will be depleted in 30 years or less. So, in the end, blimps are a stupid idea.
@denverbeek Says:
Vacuum lift would solve the issue of imbalanced forces after delivering the payload.
@ChrisM-qi2qi Says:
Here we go with the metric system "338 meter long" ... 1109 FOOT long airship ! No one thinks your cool stupid metric system in all these videos. The dislike button is 3 inches above this comment, Im headed that way.
@kangaroojack6460 Says:
No they can't..... there is a helium shortage
@marscaleb Says:
Why not use a combination of hydrogen and helium?
@BLettuce Says:
if there is a comeback then my dart monkeys gonna be working overtime
@courtneyhazelton5563 Says:
It doesn't, exactly benefit the traditional shipping industry to consistently have containers stacking up at ports, offloaded faster than they can be moved out by intermodal transports. This technology is an obvious beneficial addition to the current supply systems. We don't need something that is going to "dominate" any system. We need more complimentary technologies added to what we can't seem to keep a handle on, as is.
@RobertLachance-vd3wp Says:
No
Except in special cases like long range surveillance
They can be teathered
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