Posted on 03/13/2009 12:30:19 PM PDT by BGHater
Travel anywhere in the world in 15 days...man, that this is hauling you-know-what!
Something tells me that the military is planning ops in the post-satellite era. I have a bad feeling about what may soon go down up in space.
Won’t OBozo’s defense speding cuts nip this in the bud?
65,000 feet. Isn’t that within range of SAM’s? How long do they think it would survive?
Maybe, but satellites don’t “hover”.
Even geosyncronous orbits are rarely where you need them.
Won’t OBozo’s defense spending cuts nip this in the bud?
I think Popular Science Magazine features this idea about once every three years.
Maybe it will fly this time ;-)
there’s got to be plenty of ways to shoot something like this down, but of course if you’re spying on the US, chances are we won’t own any of of ‘em!
LOL! I can remember seeing it in there a dozen times or more.
Dirigibles..Zepplins..making a comeback?
You know..I sometimes thought that particular concept of aviation got a bad rap after the Hindenberg...weren’t there a few shows on Discovery and elsewhere that put the blame on the German airship’s aluminized paint..rather than the hydrogen..for its spectacular & catastrophic failure?
With the possibility of higher fuel costs in the near future..maybe lighter than airships will be making a big comeback down the road in a few decades.....
Easily solved by numbers. I would imagine a fleet of these things being less than the cost to launch 1 observation satellite.
What is revolutionary is that one of these ideas is dusted off and is recycled again every 5 or so years. The blimp is always touted as the way to solve the latest problem or provide a new solution that something else cheaper can do anyway.
But not before several million is spent for the “feasibility” study w/ 1/6th scale model.
Wouldn’t it be mighty easy to shoot down something this big?
Considering you would only have to travel (at most 1/2 way around the world) - - - - the blimp would only have to travel at 35MPH. The is regardless whether it is on its own power or 'being transported' to the site.
No problem. It has solar cells so it will be built by people with green-collar jobs.
I guess that depends on who they are watching? I mean, will it be over the Middle East, or Michigan?
Megan, you might be right - we have google (military version) and we have keyhole (military version) where we can see the freckles on one’s face - so why now have a blimp? seems like it’s going backward in technology to me
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