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Thread: Airships as public transport Yay or nay?

  1. 2018-03-30, 07:34 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #103
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    Default Re: Airships as public transport Yay or nay?

    Quote Originally Posted by Togath View Post
    Noticed this thread and haven't read through all the way... but I have wondered in a scifi or fantasy setting if a vacuum airship might be useful. Without the downsides of containing a gas, it seems like it could be a cheap alternative to airplanes for stuff that doesn't need to arrive as quickly.
    NPR's March 16th 2018 episode of Science Friday is discussing living on Mars, and one of their subjects is a Martian Airship. Their plan is for a vacuum-filled octahedral truss surrounded by a thin membrane for the lift balloon. Only would work on Mars because its atmosphere is 1% as dense as ours, though.
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