Thursday, March 13, 2003
Gargantuan, Grandiose, Meglomaniacal |12:15 PM|
My folks think I might be manic-depressive or some other convenient term for my personality. Since a large portion of my family is under the influence of one chemical or another (Be they legal or not) I have to be a bit slow to act on their advice. Advice, that is, about seeking treatment. But I'm already off track. I wanted to write down an idea I had while on the road.
While driving through New Mexico and Arizona, I was struck by how many enormous plots of land are available. The previous trip out, I had decided that at some point in the future I would build an enormous, scrap metal, windmill powered sculpture. At this point, I really should get my mechanical flowerpot up and running first.
Shoot, I keep getting off track. The only real limiting factor on how big you can construct a blimp is the size of the hanger in which you build and maintain it. If you had 2,000 acres of cheap land, you could build some pretty massive blimps.
Blimp Shipping. Mostly automated, but not unmanned. Unmanned aircraft are not allowed over a great deal of US airspace.
I had a couple of ideas that might make it more profitable than other blimp related ideas, like never needing them to land. Why have them land when you can just send up another balloon with a looped cable? The blimp would have a regular notched gear on the underside, and all the motors, cranes and other equipment would be on the ground. (The less equipment on the blimp, the less it weighs, and the less power it would need).
Solar panels on top for additional juice, ethanol based motors, a "pilot" who is there for legal reasons but is nothing more than a blimp sitter.
Of course, I should say that the genesis of this idea was to build enormous airships that would piss people off and lower property values. Like the enormous black sphere that would block the sun and just cackle until shot down by rednecks.
Or the end-of-the-world huge clown shaped blimp that would bounce off mountains and make farting noises loud enough to break windows.
Perhaps my sanity did not survive the trip.
FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT. HONK HONK.
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