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I want to travel by dirigable. Airplanes are just so passe.
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Last I heard, the Zepplin company was up and running a couple of sight-seeing dirigibles in southern Germany.
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Yeah, but it's not happening fast enough. By the time there's a Zepplin to Cebu I'll be 200 years old.
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Well, there's not really the fastest vehicles around.
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Whatever happened to liesure time anyway? Getting there is half the fun? The world is in a terrible hurry but it's still just floating around that same happy star in it's always been.Long time member @ Apolyton
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Why not take a tramp steamer?
My understanding is you can get pretty good rates taking a cargo ship, and the food is generally quite good. It just takes a while and you need sea legs.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Why a dirigible when you can just connect a bunch of helium-filled weather balloons to your deckchair?Comment
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che, I've thought of it, but Dolores isn't keen on the idea. Her brother is a seaman so maybe if it was his ship...he docks in Portland Oregon sometimes too...
yeah, yeah...
"Why a dirigible when you can just connect a bunch of helium-filled weather balloons to your deckchair?"
Or travel like space aliens, use a weather balloon.
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I'm not sure about aliens, but DARPA is funding an airship called WALRUS which is targeted to carry 1,000 tons of equipment anywhere in the world within days.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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That must be a big airship!
You could always walk there
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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1,000 tons. I wonder how lift capability compares with modern aircraft. It seems that if you can move 1,000 tons around then you could carry plenty of passengers. One ton would be 10 200 lb passengers without bags. So, figure 1000 lbs of bags and you have 20 people taking 3 tons. 333 people in 1000 tons?Long time member @ Apolyton
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3 tons a person? Only in America
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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3 tons for 20 persons.Comment
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Modern aircraft can lift about 75 metric tons at most.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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