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  I'm having dinner with my former boss tonight, so I'll be out when this goes up. I hope to get all the juicy work gossip! And I...

Friday, May 6, 2022

Friday Morning Open Thread

On May 6, 1937, the world’s largest dirigible airship went up in towering flames in New Jersey. -What Really Felled the Hindenburg?, Smithsonian Magazine

That was pretty much the end of the zeppelin. Recently, I've seen them turn up in dystopian fiction. Cory Doctorow's Walkaway and Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 come to mind. 
Thanks to the same highly destructive late stage capitalism and resulting climate crisis critiqued in those fictional (but all too real) novels, the giant airships may be poised for a comeback — not for passenger service, but as an environmentally friendly means of delivering goods around the globe.

Doesn't sound as fun as those steampunk ones and not as glamours as a penis rocket since there isn't a billionaire most efficient zeppelin contest. 

In any case, safe travels.Even if it's just from the kitchen to the couch.

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