#1261 – Buoyant
Posted on April 19, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Blimps were an exciting and rare sight in my area. I’ve probably seen them a dozen times. Half of them were in daylight so it looked kind of like a meandering fish drifting around. The other half were at night and the blimp had a grid of lights on the side that scrolled advertising by. For some reason a memory really sticks out from when I was a kid. I was sitting in my living room and heard the sound of very large fans off in the distance. I didn’t know what was going on at first but then I figured it out and ran outside. I made it just in time to see the blimp disappear behind the trees over my house.
Today’s Maximumble is forgetful.
Tags: blimp, pegasus, unicorn
You’re lucky to have seen any blimps at all near your home. Where I grew up, we had Chinook helicopters fairly often, but never any blimps. *Is jealous*
here in colorado we have norad
Here in Sweden, a local branch of the left party (communists) wanted to make all car/aircraft makers state-owned (they were then owned by GM and other non-Swedish companies) and use them to make airships to use instead of aircraft for flying within the countrys borders.
I spent about two minutes thinking about how cool and steampunk-ish that would be before casting my vote on something completely else 😀
instead of other aircraft* sry
Meant airplanes ofc.
I was always fascinated by dirigibles. My local school oddly enough had dozens of books on them. I knew the entire history up to the final decision to decommission the last ones the US had running by the Navy. I even designed safer Hydrogen nodules. Someday, when the Steampunk Revolution happens, I may finally get to realize my dream of piloting a great airship.
Biff’s blimp is all flat… 🙁
I’ve seen a lot of blimps over the years – Used to be stationed near the home port / field of one of the Goodyear blimps. They never cease to strike me as surreal – So of course Biff would have one!
You just need a cloudwalking spell
Thought I might make the first reference to Zeppelin here, but then noticed the two comments already posted by Zep. As if.
Nice to near about safer hydrogen nodules. I hope that makes them less ozone reactive as well as less likely to make for cool album covers.
I see a theme of fantasy backfiring in this week’s Biff.
Oh the humanity!
I’m gonna go ahead and pretend this is a My Little Pony reference, because I can.
In Ohio, we have Pegasi but not unicorns. The unicorns all died out due to the Great Wyrm infestation of ’43; without blimps or wings, the poor critters just never had a chance.
Blimps?! You want Blimps?! Come to Indianapolis during 500 weekend and you’ll probably see no fewer than *FIVE* of them (plus other assorted helicopters and airplanes) hovering/circling/flying around the track. One of these days I fully expect an air-to-air collision. Other than that; yeah, bringing the Dirigible (technically, the actual name of Zeppelins. Zeppelin was the name of the German company that built them) back would be awesome.
Mythical creatures week!
Also, Biff has a pretty one-track mind when it comes to designing flying things.