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[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

What airships need to do is become like cruise ships. Put an amusement park and a casino up there, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The problem is weight. The heavier the load the bigger the gas bag needs to be to carry that load. The whole thing very quickly gets out of proportion and considering they were using hydrogen the heavier the load the riskier it was.

Modern airships are helium-based, but helium is way too expensive to ever be commercially viable on a large scale.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

As far as I know they were somewhat like cruise ships in their luxury.

The (enormous) problem is weight. Everything needs to be as light as possible, it's a balloon after all.

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