xkcd #3298: Aerospace Flowchart
Title text:
Someday, we will find the problem that goes with this solution.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3298/
xkcd #3298: Aerospace Flowchart
Title text:
Someday, we will find the problem that goes with this solution.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3298/
I find it odd that the answer is ALWAYS no. Surely at least one problem has been solved by building giant airships.
Mass transport (of rich people and military) before the invention of the jet engine.
Airships are the most expensive, worst and most dangerous solution to any problem.
i disagree. you could build catamaran-style airships.
that sounds far more expensive and more dangerous.
not worse though, that sounds way cooler.
Building a worse airship is still building an airship.
And name them Akron and Macon.
i was going to name them after match companies but i like your idea
Oh you must be European, if you’re concerned about fires aboard airships. American airships don’t burn; we’ve never been stupid enough to use hydrogen as a lifting gas. USS Akron and USS Macon both crashed, much of the crew of one froze to death and the other proved surprisingly survivable. Compare that to the Hindenberg or R-101.
No we use good old fashioned methane yes sir patented blimp gas here
I have spent the last year trying to find copies online of a musical some friends wrote while I was in college. It’s called Hindenburg: Oh the Humanity!