Comments by "" (@timogul) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. It sounds great, but I do hope they weather-train these things. I mean Arizona has no snow and relatively little rain and even heavy clouds. They need to cover all types of heavy rain, sleet, snow of all types. We don't want them going "ok, we've got this perfected" and then they ship them around the country and it's like a bunch of Texans on the road.
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  2. He looks cute, but sounds terrifying. Like a horde of bees. A swarm of those things would be nightmarish.
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  3. Wouldn't the best solution to safe pick-up of cargo be guylines? There should be a fairly simple way that an airship could drive close to a target, drop four or more guylines with drogues at the end, which could be driven by small vehicles over to giant winches, which could drag the vehicles down to the ground evenly, avoiding both the control and lift issues. Yes, it would require infrastructure investment at the hubs, but the same is true of current shipyards, and I don't think these things would be as expensive as their heavy cranes, or maintaining runways.
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