Social Should we bring Zeppelins back

[PBAC]

I mean, probably cheaper than a bus and easier to land than a plane. They'd shorten the routes on some bus journeys. There's probably a bunch of different other reasons but we seem to have stopped using them largely because of the Hindenburg disaster. Looking back on old photos of them is like seeing something from Sci FI

 

[Contempt]

If we're talking about the led type... I'm in.

 

[PBAC]

If we're talking about the lead type... I'm in.

you made me actually google that

fuck you

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are close to 80 years old, but give them some TRT I can see them making a comeback

 

[Contempt]

you made me actually google that

fuck you

You're welcome.

 

[Belaya Smert]

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are close to 80 years old, but give them some TRT I can see them making a comeback

Couldn’t be any worse than the lifeless flaccid version of The Rolling Stones that recently toured.

 

[TTech]

I always loved them, Id love to see em back. Quiet, quick enough given other modes of local transpo, not able to carry huge number of people so it would be a pleasant, upscale experience. Hope they return, for this or that purpose.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Aren't they rendered useless if weather isn't ideal?

 

[rckoltrane]

Would be cool to look below at the peons stuck in traffic. But isn’t it slow to board and load and anchor and departure?

 

[Streeter]

Definitely would love to see LZ in concert tho ar this age it might suck. But in prime the most talented band in history an its not close. (Plant one of goat rock singers, Page a goat guitarist, Bonham is the goat drummer, and JPJ is a goat bass) not to even mention the goat level song writing.

 

[scgst4]

 

[PBAC]

Would be cool to look below at the peons stuck in traffic. But isn’t it slow to board and load and anchor and departure?

boarding and loading can be improved/sped up

there's probably a more modern way to anchor than there was in the past. I would run them on direct routes only when the road alternative takes the long route, or over a lake or something.

the luxury aspect would probably go straight out the window today and they'd become flying buses

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

They’d be too expensive. For safety reasons they switched decades ago from hydrogen to helium to prevent a repeat of the Hindenburg disaster, but the thing is there’s a worldwide shortage of helium. You could maybe bring them back for luxury purposes and charge a lot for a ticket in order to recoup the costs, but to make them a viable means of mass transportation just isn’t going to happen. Not unless cold fusion really becomes a thing, then presumably we’ll be able to make helium as a byproduct of power generation.

 

[Tone C]

If we're talking about the led type... I'm in.

Hey hey momma....

 

[StocktonMuhfuh]

Now that you mention it why has there never been a romantic tragedy set on the Hindenburg ala Titanic?

 

[crabmeat]

 

[Diktaattori]

People love to watch the fire burn

 

[Xuh]

only possible if we can also figure out how to bring John Bonham back

 

[emefer]

Now that you mention it why has there never been a romantic tragedy set on the Hindenburg ala Titanic?

Something like this?

 

[emefer]

only possible if we can also figure out how to bring John Bonham back

John Bonham, he couldn’t swing a sack of shit - Ginger Baker