207: Airships (Yep… Blimps)

Matt think back to your visit to your home manufacturing facility. They kept showing you your home in three dimensions on the screen and how they can twist it and turn it and change things and modify it. This would be a perfect use for the goggles not only for the designer but by the builders and the Craftsman the tradesmen to come in afterwards. Just like your comment about the designer having exact dimensions and being able to make changes and show things off that would be wonderful

You guys made me laugh when you laughed about the guy on all fours....so good.

I remember when I learned about how helium is an essentially unrenewable resource, because once it escapes its container, it floats to the top of the atmosphere & it's lost forever. And there's basically no way to make more, because it's a noble gas that's non-reactive with anything, and I had pretty much the the same reaction. Why are we using this for stupid party balloons and making squeaky voices lol? That's why it's also one of the most valuable resources in space games like Mass Effect, where you have to mine for helium-3.

Thanks to Sean I now know that there was once a band named "The 5th Dimension" what sang something called "Up, Up and Away".

Spring is almost here. Killeen Texas hit 100° on federal 27th

Thanks. I now have this crazy mental image of Lance Armstrong cycling, Simone Biles doing gymnastics, Wile E Coyote running with 85 legs, and the little robot thing Chewbacca growled at all running from the Hindenburg collapsing....

I like the idea of airships over planes. What about mixed use blimps/zeppelins? One way is passengers but the return trip is freight.

I am so excited about the Accessibility features for ALS. I am fully eye gaze. And I might be able to go outside when they fix some bugs

Did the researcher add in "the song remains the same" too? I wondered if there were even more Led Zepp references! Interesting video.. thanks. Ken, England

I haven't laughed while listening to a podcast in a long time. Listening to the story of someone running on all fours from the Hindenburg, and hearing you two laugh about it, was SO funny to me!

That lake is the Salton Sea, no longer dry, and it has geo-thermal properties. South and east of Palm Springs.

The major issue about all these really great potential usecases is Apple has made some choices in their frameworks/APIs that prettymuch prevent a lot of these handholding augmented DIY things from being done. That may change in the future, but a lot of why they made these choices are due to privacy.

Follow with me... Your podcasts, in the virtual space, where I log in, sit down, and am in a virtual room with the two of you behind your individual desks. Expand this to meetings and lectures... engineers have been using 3d modeling for years, but imagine having a crew from all over the planet able to explore a virtual model to scale and test in real time. And are we sure the Hindenberg didn't look at Jersy and light itself on fire?

How about those blimps. You're absolutely right that's a very limited resource which is their primary ingredient to make bumps work. Perhaps aerogel. Now practically speaking about safety, we know how to make cars safe. But yet, every year thousands of cars are recalled for safety defects of design or assembly. Look at all the airplanes with things falling off or out right crashing. Now the big one. Weather! The majority of air ship losses are from fighting the weather. These ships have so much unalterable sail and so little power to fight, overcome and win against unfavorable wind speed, direction, or gusting. Hindenburg, the US Navy and Goodyear all lost a lot of air ships and primarily due to unfavorable weather.

The Zeppelin is back!!!!!

"It's mind melting...." and at nearly $4K a pop, it's bank account melting too.

I think the big issue is not hydrogen flamabiliity which I could see made relatively safe with smart venting and fire retardant compartments but weather. A slow moving airship with a large surface area is likely to be significantly impacted by weather and when you look at the loss of military airships in the early 20th century like the USS Shenandoah, USS Akron and the British R101 it was weather that brought them down. It is just hard to see how a technology that will have a worse uptime than shipping or general aviation will ever be a significant player.

Lithium video framing idea. What if instead of the are we running out concept, what about the potential future possibilities when they figure out how to mine it. Will battery prices plunge? What other possibilities open up when the world's lithium supply goes way up?

Lithium lake - I knowo they were trying it on the Great Salt Lake in Utah, but looks like they shut down that project at the start of Feb 2024

Is there a hydrogen-helium mix that would be safer and still provide a lift advantage?