The world's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley | TechCrunch
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As dawn breaks over Silicon Valley, the world is getting its first look at Pathfinder 1, a prototype electric airship that its maker LTA Research hopes
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s not like the world is running out of Helium or anything and maybe it would be better used in scientific and medical applications than a big fuckoff airship.

    • vvvvan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      This is the future of air travel! An airship revolution! Just need a few million dollars from daddy “investors”. Silicon Valley is full of these absurd schemes and games for bored billionaires.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    For everyone saying it has no market… some googling finds it is intended for slow cargo delivery to places that have no existing infrastructure. Also this is a prototype, so the bigger ones will have a much larger capacity. They also say it is for disaster relief, similarly to places with no infra, or where that infrastructure has been destroyed like in an earthquake or what not.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    I do believe those are traditionally called airships rather than aircraft or is the renaming of lighter-than-air dirigibles to “aircraft” yet another example of Silicon Valley Marketing spinning yet-another-reinventing-of-the-wheel as innovation.

  • TheLurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Wow another revolutionary invention coming out of silicon valley.

    What a brilliant visionary Sergey Brin is.