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First Solar-Powered Blimp to Cross English Channel
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| Tuesday, June 29,2010
| Zahra Hirji
Posted on 06/29/2010 4:25:32 PM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green
a solar powered blimp.
oy.
Why don't they put a freaking windmill on it? And a spotted f(cking owl sanctuary, too.
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posted on
06/29/2010 4:28:10 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(barbara walters, celebrity whore.)
To: Willie Green
Sorry...no night travel available...
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posted on
06/29/2010 4:28:33 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
To: Willie Green
25mph? A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
While they admit it was “just to prove they could”, what a terrific waste of time and money. Once again doing the inane for the purposes of inanity.
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posted on
06/29/2010 4:29:08 PM PDT
by
TheZMan
(Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
To: FrankR
Take the night train to Georgia.
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posted on
06/29/2010 4:29:42 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: the invisib1e hand
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posted on
06/29/2010 4:29:56 PM PDT
by
TheZMan
(Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
To: Willie Green
Soon the panels will be thinner and lighter. If they can make lightweight batteries, this will permit a ISR UV capable of missions that last MONTHS —maybe years.
For COIN ops this would be a big deal.
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posted on
06/29/2010 4:33:31 PM PDT
by
TokuMei
To: Willie Green
72’ long and 16’ wide is enormous?
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posted on
06/29/2010 4:39:01 PM PDT
by
Jaxter
("Pro Aris et Focis")
To: Willie Green
This is one cold looking picture!
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posted on
06/29/2010 4:41:23 PM PDT
by
Dem Guard
(Throw the trash out on November 2nd!)
To: the invisib1e hand
Next thing you know they’ll be calling it the future of air travel.
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posted on
06/29/2010 4:52:00 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: the invisib1e hand
There are all sorts of practical applications for an airship, that doesn't need to carry fuel — long-term surveillance, and communications being the most obvious examples. Consider too, that the space station is solar powered.
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
It definitely works well for the space station and would be fine for some high altitude uses.
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posted on
06/29/2010 5:01:19 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: JoeProBono; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
Please, no Michael Moore photos.
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posted on
06/29/2010 5:01:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: Willie Green
If it can go across the English Channel, why can’t it just keep going as long as it has sunlight?
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posted on
06/29/2010 5:04:26 PM PDT
by
johnandrhonda
(have you hugged your banjo today?)
To: Willie Green
US forces are MUCH more dependent on GPS than we (or even they) suspect.
The first step the PRC will take in ANY conflict with US forces will be to interrupt GPS services —a very crude way of interrupting such service would be detonation of nuclear devices in space, although that would be unpopular. Other ways exist.
Such craft could serve as a pop-up, backup system.
There are also plans to have each US nuke sub feature one or two tubes given over to ferret sats that would go into orbit and take over if the primaries were eliminated.
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posted on
06/29/2010 5:05:02 PM PDT
by
TokuMei
To: Willie Green; All
Al Gore is going into exile?
(/rimshot)
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posted on
06/29/2010 5:07:12 PM PDT
by
60Gunner
(Saving the world, one paper form at a time.)
To: Willie Green
What a loser this rig is...
Single passenger/pilot - no means of 'landing' without props hitting the ground - no windshield - no heater - probably no parachute.
Great - hope someone sees you trying to land, and grabs a tether line and hauls you to safety... so it has little future in my estimation.
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posted on
06/29/2010 5:27:30 PM PDT
by
Ron C.
To: the invisib1e hand
You can cross the Country in a mere 5-6 days assuming no wind.
Pray for America
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posted on
06/29/2010 5:35:10 PM PDT
by
bray
(Did Rush say Complete Failure?)
To: TheZMan
If it is on their dime I don’t care what they do.
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posted on
06/29/2010 5:43:16 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
To: SunkenCiv
Please, no Michael Moore photos.
No that would be a methane powered blimp.
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posted on
06/29/2010 5:44:59 PM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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