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Possibly the strangest thing I've ever seen...

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What the hell?

http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Whale- ... t_999.html

Is this cool or not? I can't tell; I'm so confused...
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Tsukiyumi wrote:What the hell?

http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Whale- ... t_999.html

Is this cool or not? I can't tell; I'm so confused...
Funky!!!! It's a unusual take on the Airship/Zeppelin concept

(PS:I hope i never use the word funky again)
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Leave it to the French to build a flying whale hotel...or the Japanese, neither one make sense.
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Very wierd. :?
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Non-intrusive? Sure, until they have to dump the blue ice somewhere...
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Mikey wrote:Non-intrusive? Sure, until they have to dump the blue ice somewhere...
That could be all kinds of bad.
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reminds me an awful lot of a certain thunderbirds motion picture.
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Which point was actually mentioned in the article.
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Hmm. It's certainly an interesting idea, and makes good use of airships' ability to remain aloft unpowered, but I'm not seeing the resemblance to TB2.
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Not the thunderbird 2, but skyship 1, from the second thunderbird thunderbird motion picture.
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Mikey wrote:Non-intrusive? Sure, until they have to dump the blue ice somewhere...
Ahh, they'll just dump it on poor neighborhoods, so it shouldn't be any real inconvenience...
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:lol:
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