[Stoat]

A stewardess for the Manned Cloud?  :-)

More for Thunderbirds fans  :-)

BBC - Cult - Gerry Anderson - Thunderbirds

[dfwgator]

Get hi-hi-high,
way up in the sky.
Gonna get, yes sirree,
if ya come and rock with me.
Have you heard? What’s the word?
It’s Thunderbird.

-ZZ Top

[TChad]

refuelled by a form of helium gas.

Let me guess. For obvious reasons, they don't want to admit that they intend to power this thing using hydrogen gas for fuel. So, they call hydrogen a form of helium.

[RJL]

...its designers say it will gently lift 40 passengers into the sky for a serene cruise of the world.

A spokesman for Massaud, AurÈlie Ullrich, said: !The idea at the heart of this project is that passengers can see fantastic places like Thailand and the Caribbean without the need to build ugly hotels everywhere.

"It could land for a few days or for a week if there is a big event going on.

Lets see... a large "ugly" hotel will easily accommodate 2000 guests. Instead of one "ugly" hotel they're going to park these things for perhaps a week, but alas, they only accommodate 40 guests each.

So which is more ugly, a single 2000 guest hotel or having 50 of these things parked all around the city, and those 50 would only take the place of one hotel. Locations with 10 hotels could instead have 500 of these parked all about.

I think it's a neat idea and I'd like to take a world cruise in one, but their marketing should be based in reality.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

I was looking at an old "travel" threads and came across this about the flying hotel Thunderbird 2.

The idea at the heart of this project is that passengers can see fantastic places like Thailand and theCaribbean without the need to build ugly hotels everywhere.

Has anyone seen the movie WALL_E? Looks like we are closer to our future than we thought. UGLY hotels? Terrorists will love it!!!