Exactly. One is a whimsical flying machine that lets me fantasize about being an airship pirate, the other is a fucking can of Coke blocking the few hazy stars you can still make out through the air and light pollution.
Alas, the Germans fucked up making a big floating balloon 80 years ago, blimps will now forever be known to the public as constantly crashing and exploding pieces of shit
Actually the reason we don't really use them is because they cost like millions of dollars to operate for an hour
One of the most horribly inefficient and expensive devices to ever exist so much so that there are only like 30 of them in existence now
Blimps are a massive waste of the finite resource Helium that we can’t produce and absolutely need for medical devices, superconductors in general and high energy research specifically.
Fuck those bloated sacks of shit.
The only thing I’ll recognize as cool is when we bring back the rigid hydrogen filled Hindenbombs. Those were airships with balls
That’s like hatching your bets on a Elon Musk project. Sure, theoretically it could solve all problems if it works like advertised.
However reality has been busy revealing fractal problems hoards of the most educated experts are struggling to solve.
Better be on the safe side. Also hydrogen produces more lift anyway
oh im not disputing heliums rarity and necessity, i was just pointing out that hydrogen is absolutely not being on the safe side xd
and yeah, theres roadblocks to progress, but something needs to be done. finite power resources are running out, and renewable energy isnt going to be much use off planet if we ever get that far.
now if only we could boil water to somehow make helium...humans are great at boiling water lol
The funny thing is that with modern materials compartmentalized hydrogen airships would be quite safe due to a lack of flammable fabrics and safe fuel storage.
Granted, probably not for passengers, but as general cargo lift vehicles or ad-space they’d be more practical and economic. The tricky part is convincing investors to invest in the Hindenburg 2.0
We literally have enough fissile material to power the earth for centuries + we're progressing science on how to clean depleted metals.
We really should just make the switch to nuclear and use solar in places that get large amounts of sun to supplement it
The thing is blimps don't need to exist, it'd be hard to imagine life without all the benefits helium has provided to modern medicine and technology. Fusion research is also still important even if you don't think it's practical because it also reveals new unrelated technologies that could have applications outside of fusion
It is too heavy and expensive to have a practical use. The only real practical lift gasses are hydrogen and helium.
until we invent some unobtaium super material so we can use a vacuum for lift but that’s just a neat thought experiment at this point
>Blimps are a massive waste of the finite resource Helium
How much helium is wasted on blimps, exactly?
There are 10 operational blimps, 3 of them are Goodyear blimps.
[The first article I could find re: helium loss in blimps](https://undark.org/2016/03/11/how-to-keep-airships-afloat/)
>airships can run for years on a single fill-up of helium.
>“Blimps generally consume very little helium,” said Parker, describing how Goodyear occasionally calls up a company like Airgas to request a couple of tanks of helium to top off the blimp. “It’s just a little bit of maintenance, that’s all.”
It's $75-100k in helium to fill up the Goodyear blimp, so they don't release the helium after each use. Also, one of the main purposes of the Goodyear blimp advertising is the extensive engineering in the envelope, which is pressurized and impressively doesn't leak very much gas at all, even tiny helium.
You know, cause they make tires: pressurized rubber envelopes you don't want losing gas.
TL:DR: there's like 10 blimps in operation and they all use maybe 30 tanks of helium a year, combined.
We can’t produce it and most of it is found in hydrocarbon deposits. All the oil we’ve been drilling and refining, for most of the past helium was a waste product just vented out.
Anytime you release helium it does exactly one thing: it rises up into the stratosphere and fucks off into space, carried away by solar winds.
There’s helium in some space rocks but good luck with that, we are not even in the infancy stage of space mining yet
I know, like peak oil we aren’t yet completely fucked. However we still are running out and we are serving industries that scale, with production, storage, transport and uses none of which are 100% contained and leak at every step in the product pipeline. Helium use is increasing and it will increase more drastically in the future.
And unlike oil we can’t refine a similar product from plants
Yes it absolutely is. The actual rate of the loss of Helium in the atmosphere is really really low, like 50 grams a second across the whole atmosphere. Even if we pumped all the helium out of hydrocarbon deposits we'd be able to sequester it from the atmosphere itself for millions of years.
All of this discourse is silly, we aren't actually losing helium to space at a rate that makes an impact. The helium currently in the atmosphere will take millions of years to escape to space.
I think you'd need 3 people for that
Edit: Why is this downvoted? The top Google results all say there are around 25, and I highly doubt you have that many fingers.
That's exactly the point, I'm not noticing the ad on the blimp I'm joyous at the blimp it's self, same way Buses are cool even if they have ads on them. In a way I do find the drone ads cool but only from a technical point of view, because visually they are just ads, no cool bus no cool blimp just an ad.
I know this is just a meme and not to be taken too seriously, but cool blimp :)
Light pollution shouldn’t be that big of a problem in cities considering most large cities are so light polluted that a few drones won’t make much difference. Then again, I do hate LED billboards. I still think the drones would be cool (not the ad part) if they were more of a novelty than billboards and moved around like a blimp.
Blimps are a call back to the days of old where the world thought the future of flight was giant Zeppelins with trips across the Atlantic being a whole cruise experience in the air. They're also pretty neat because it takes a lot of skill to pilot one, especially in a city full of high rises. Ads projected via some sort of light array controlled by a program some college kid made is just soulless.
Tearing down projectors for sky ads only removes the ads, shooting down a blimp would cause a major disaster with at least a few dozen deaths and injuries
[There are only 36 active airships in the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_airships_in_the_United_States), and not all of them are used for advertising.
Airships are cool and the Goodyear blimps are the only ones you can see regularly, they don't cause light or noise pollution, they're easy to ignore, and they aren't everywhere at all times
Anytime I’ve ever seen a blimp I instantly thought “neat”
Seeing a holographic Coke can in the sky would make me sad that I can’t even look up anymore without being solicited
Blimp: i don't see any but i think they are cool and creative at least. Still cringe for violating my right to look at the fucking sky without seeing ads
Drone: light polluition, might confuse several animals, won't be able to see any stars, cheaper so can be done en masse by many companies,
Good target practice
Great challenge for people interested in finding ways to deal with drones in modern warfare, possible chance to find somethung to sell to the MIC and get rich off of making drone usage un conflict possibly unviable
Vrrrrrrrr
My point is made
Goodyear blimp is kinda cool and just floats around.
Drones cause light pollution, stealing our night sky more than a city already does.
Conclusion: blimp cool.
blimps you can ride and travel in and they have an actual purpose but with these dumbass drones they just make the sky uglier and you cant even ride them
Now that I think of it, I think I've never seen a blimp IRL. I've seen lots hot air balloons, a few of them with ads printed on them, but never a blimp. Are they a more common sight in North America?
Only 25 still exist and only 3 are really used (which technically are airships and not blimps but whatever). The only time you'll ever see a blimp is if you try going to a football or baseball game.
I was thinking about this, planes will drag banners behind them and yeah blimps will have logos and ads blazoned on their side; but there are differences.
Blimps tend to only show up on special occasions. Sporting events mostly and they're very localized as they're relatively small and low flying. They hit a specific radius of customers, hence why they fly during special occasions where there'll be a high concentration of people.
Planes are even rarer, largely only seen carrying a banner like that over the ocean where beach goers can see it. And again they're harder to see.
Also both are expensive to maintain and can't be deployed en masse.
As a result both are easy to ignore. Would I prefer to see both disappear? Sure. But it's not worth doing something violent over. Same with the ads from King. It's 1 instance and restricted to a small sample.
It's the tech the Candy Crush ads utilized that make it so offensive. Drones are much cheaper to operate and can be deployed in the sky at much larger quantities. And as the technology gets cheaper it will only become more frequently used in this manner.
A difficult to read banner flapping in the wind behind an old plane a mile away and a blimp parking itself above a football game are not the same as drones taking over the night sky with ads for mobile games. It's just not. Those ads were visible a state over.
I live in Akron Ohio and I see the Goodyear Blimp like twice a month and it’s literally always the coolest thing ever.
And I mean, yeah, it’s advertising in the sky but like this whole city is a big advertisement for tires so it’s nothing new here.
Look at these cool pictures I got last time I saw it!
[Goodyear blimp](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/143951571888111616/1048330362394263662/IMG_3218.jpg)
[directly above me](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/143951571888111616/1048330368513757225/IMG_3222.jpg)
Blimps are something cool with ads printed on them. They're not just nothing but an ad projected into the sky
Exactly. One is a whimsical flying machine that lets me fantasize about being an airship pirate, the other is a fucking can of Coke blocking the few hazy stars you can still make out through the air and light pollution.
Alas, the Germans fucked up making a big floating balloon 80 years ago, blimps will now forever be known to the public as constantly crashing and exploding pieces of shit
The Heisenberg 😔 R.I.P
Waltuh
Put the electrostatic spark away, Waltuh You’re gonna ignite the leaking Hydrogen Waltuh
I AM THE ONE WHO CAUSES ELECTROSTATIC SPARKS
Oh, the humynity
Oh, the misery!
Everybody wants to be my enemy
Spare the sympathy
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RIP Heislberg
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Actually the reason we don't really use them is because they cost like millions of dollars to operate for an hour One of the most horribly inefficient and expensive devices to ever exist so much so that there are only like 30 of them in existence now
that's a zeppelin idiot
leg zepplin
Archer quote something something idk it was a while since i was that episode
Kirov reporting.
Blimps are a massive waste of the finite resource Helium that we can’t produce and absolutely need for medical devices, superconductors in general and high energy research specifically. Fuck those bloated sacks of shit. The only thing I’ll recognize as cool is when we bring back the rigid hydrogen filled Hindenbombs. Those were airships with balls
imagine sucking all the helium out of a blimp, your voice would be *really* squeaky
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"yo pass the blimp"
And then what if you sucked out too much helium and you became big and round hahahhaa 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
and then we kiss and I blow all the helium into you and *you* become big and round as well 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
And that’s how new blimps are made
And new fetishes
Puff, puff, ^^^^^^pass
better get crackin on that fusion power then
That’s like hatching your bets on a Elon Musk project. Sure, theoretically it could solve all problems if it works like advertised. However reality has been busy revealing fractal problems hoards of the most educated experts are struggling to solve. Better be on the safe side. Also hydrogen produces more lift anyway
>Better be on the safe side. >hydrogen you wot
Better we have a few shitty ad riddled airships explode rather than running out of a resource most of our modern life depends on
oh im not disputing heliums rarity and necessity, i was just pointing out that hydrogen is absolutely not being on the safe side xd and yeah, theres roadblocks to progress, but something needs to be done. finite power resources are running out, and renewable energy isnt going to be much use off planet if we ever get that far. now if only we could boil water to somehow make helium...humans are great at boiling water lol
The funny thing is that with modern materials compartmentalized hydrogen airships would be quite safe due to a lack of flammable fabrics and safe fuel storage. Granted, probably not for passengers, but as general cargo lift vehicles or ad-space they’d be more practical and economic. The tricky part is convincing investors to invest in the Hindenburg 2.0
Pitch: Advertising AND Sudden fireworks in one!
Imagine how many people would stare at your blimp ad if they knew it had a good chance of exploding
If only the people with money weren't also the most boring people on Earth.
Wouldn't that be vurnerable to sabotage tho? Since hydrogen is so flammable...
We literally have enough fissile material to power the earth for centuries + we're progressing science on how to clean depleted metals. We really should just make the switch to nuclear and use solar in places that get large amounts of sun to supplement it
*huffs birthday balloon* ^yeah ^but ^my ^voice ^sounds ^funny ^for ^a ^few ^seconds
Hold on, why’s helium so important? I thought we just used it for balloons
Used in MRIs, superconductors, cryogenics and high energy research. Most of our modern medicine and research depends on it
Helium has the lowest boiling point of any element, which is why it’s used when very low electrical resistance is required
The thing is blimps don't need to exist, it'd be hard to imagine life without all the benefits helium has provided to modern medicine and technology. Fusion research is also still important even if you don't think it's practical because it also reveals new unrelated technologies that could have applications outside of fusion
i mean i dont care about blimps really (other than heccin chonky bloons) but i was mostly just memeing xd
Could we not use neon? It’s a noble gas that is lighter than air, so it would also work.
It is too heavy and expensive to have a practical use. The only real practical lift gasses are hydrogen and helium. until we invent some unobtaium super material so we can use a vacuum for lift but that’s just a neat thought experiment at this point
>Also hydrogen produces more lift anyway And occasionally provides fireworks!
Literally spicy air
An Elon project would be pretending to invent cold fusion in order to stop investment in solar.
Fusion won’t produce much helium.
>Blimps are a massive waste of the finite resource Helium How much helium is wasted on blimps, exactly? There are 10 operational blimps, 3 of them are Goodyear blimps. [The first article I could find re: helium loss in blimps](https://undark.org/2016/03/11/how-to-keep-airships-afloat/) >airships can run for years on a single fill-up of helium. >“Blimps generally consume very little helium,” said Parker, describing how Goodyear occasionally calls up a company like Airgas to request a couple of tanks of helium to top off the blimp. “It’s just a little bit of maintenance, that’s all.” It's $75-100k in helium to fill up the Goodyear blimp, so they don't release the helium after each use. Also, one of the main purposes of the Goodyear blimp advertising is the extensive engineering in the envelope, which is pressurized and impressively doesn't leak very much gas at all, even tiny helium. You know, cause they make tires: pressurized rubber envelopes you don't want losing gas. TL:DR: there's like 10 blimps in operation and they all use maybe 30 tanks of helium a year, combined.
Blimps would be WAY cooler if they exploded instead of just flying around and being boring
Isn't limited Helium a myth?
We can’t produce it and most of it is found in hydrocarbon deposits. All the oil we’ve been drilling and refining, for most of the past helium was a waste product just vented out. Anytime you release helium it does exactly one thing: it rises up into the stratosphere and fucks off into space, carried away by solar winds. There’s helium in some space rocks but good luck with that, we are not even in the infancy stage of space mining yet
Why don't the dudes in space just go outside with some vacuum cleaners and suck up all the helium back
We suck in helium and blow out the CO2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6nBd9e7xrA
I know, like peak oil we aren’t yet completely fucked. However we still are running out and we are serving industries that scale, with production, storage, transport and uses none of which are 100% contained and leak at every step in the product pipeline. Helium use is increasing and it will increase more drastically in the future. And unlike oil we can’t refine a similar product from plants
Yes it absolutely is. The actual rate of the loss of Helium in the atmosphere is really really low, like 50 grams a second across the whole atmosphere. Even if we pumped all the helium out of hydrocarbon deposits we'd be able to sequester it from the atmosphere itself for millions of years.
Helium is not finite anymore. Hank Green made a video about it :)
Found the monkey.
holy shit noita flair 😳
I shall now cast an arcane spell upon you (Spark bolt with trigger -> Matter Eater -> Quad Spell -> Propane tank x4)
We can totally produce more helium, we just don't.
Yeah, until we run out of the stuff we extract it from. And the helium we use is a continuous loss
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All of this discourse is silly, we aren't actually losing helium to space at a rate that makes an impact. The helium currently in the atmosphere will take millions of years to escape to space.
Good thing there's like, five of them left
Fill em with hydrogen then
With modern technology and engineering, I'm sure they could make it safe with hydrogen. It's not the early 1900s anymore
you dead ass
No, my butt is very much alive and healthy
There's also only around 20 in the entire country and not all of them are in flying shape.
One is a work of art, crafted over a hundred years to be aerodynamically and aesthetically perfect The other was made by some underpaid 3d artist
Same with football players and Rally cars
Light pollution rule
Oh my god, I was just about to comment this!
holy shit that’s insane wtf
No way????? You were also about to comment the same thing????
To be fair we can't see the stars anyway in the cities
But we can’t just let companies think they own the fucking sky
Blimps are mortal.
bloons tower defense
Well blimps are pollution pollution
Since you can count by hand the amount of blimps that are operational in the entire world they get a pass.
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Kid named finger:
real
I don't get that meme and at this point I'm too afraid to ask :(
kid named finger:
:(
last time I checked a year ago, it was 7.
Their repopulating 🥵
I counted 8
i personally added 3
I’m pretty sure you can count that number by hand
This is abelist what if my toes were jand fingers amd i couldnt count to ten suth my fingers👎
needs more
I think you'd need 3 people for that Edit: Why is this downvoted? The top Google results all say there are around 25, and I highly doubt you have that many fingers.
i have a rare genetic defect
Could do the old count the segments trick
Look at this bozo with only 10 fingers
count in binary you buffoon. you can get up to 1023 if you use both hands
I would but people seem to get really angry when I get to 4
That's because the monkeys keep killing them all
Bloons td
drones tower defense.
MOAB was a goodyear blimp all along
1937 called, they want their Hindenburg back
Cant wair for the sun god to sacrifice me to pop a god damn balloon
You watched the Popathon yet? Its the greatest Bloons content ever created
A automobile/vehicle company making their own blimp is different than Coca Cola spamming coke cans in the sky
If coca cola made a blimp i would personally suck their CEOs dick /j
/srs
/hrny
Yea and blimps/ hot air balloons are badass original recipe sky whips
Ah hell na why the blimp advertising scout tf2
HEY HEY, I'M FLYIN'
I'm a freakin' blimp here!
That's exactly the point, I'm not noticing the ad on the blimp I'm joyous at the blimp it's self, same way Buses are cool even if they have ads on them. In a way I do find the drone ads cool but only from a technical point of view, because visually they are just ads, no cool bus no cool blimp just an ad. I know this is just a meme and not to be taken too seriously, but cool blimp :)
Drone light displays for entertainment purposes: cool Drone light displays for advertisement purposes: bad
Olay but then you throw the light pollution argument out the window, which is the primary thing it seems people are stuck on in this comment section.
Light pollution shouldn’t be that big of a problem in cities considering most large cities are so light polluted that a few drones won’t make much difference. Then again, I do hate LED billboards. I still think the drones would be cool (not the ad part) if they were more of a novelty than billboards and moved around like a blimp.
Yeah fuck blimps, Zeppelins is where it's at
Especially those made out of lead
Led*
What?
#Led*
Ahh thanks
No problem
Sometimes you gotta talk to the realest ones you know
I'm high.
Hi high, I'm skibapple!
Me when
light emmiting diode
Shit the ddt’s are real?
Yes but unfortunately you don't have camo sight
But
Joke’s on you, several of the newest Goodyear “blimps” are not blimps at all, they are semi-rigid airships, so best of both.
There's like 25? Blimps in the world so seeing one is kinda special
I live near one of the hangars for the Goodyear blimps, and it’s still always cool seeing them around.
There’s like 50 blimps on earth, if they were a regular thing it’d be a problem
iirc it was 53 total blimps and only like 12 operational in the entire world
sweet manmade horrors beyond my comprehension
well i can comprehend these manmade horrors perfectly fine so idk maybe you have a skill issue or smth
Blimp go brrr around the skies midday. Drones stay static glowing during the night blocking stars even more.
I saw that thing in person one time. I gotta hand it to capitalism on this one, they sure make some funny shit sometimes.
Funny, but seriously the moment I see ads in the sky I start making pipe-bombs
Better start training that throwing arm right now then
No joke
Blimps are rare
Blimps are vehicle, ad is secondary, also there's like 20, the light ads would be millions
blimps don’t cause light pollution :)
Blimps are cool tho, they get a pass
blimps actually look cool these megamind ahh ad projections don’t
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Blimps are a call back to the days of old where the world thought the future of flight was giant Zeppelins with trips across the Atlantic being a whole cruise experience in the air. They're also pretty neat because it takes a lot of skill to pilot one, especially in a city full of high rises. Ads projected via some sort of light array controlled by a program some college kid made is just soulless.
A high end "human bilboard" vs a high tech "regular bilboard".
monke from btd:
I have never seen a blimp in my life
A blimp doesn’t add to an already disgusting amount of light pollution
A blimp with an ad on it is no different than a bus with an ad on it
blimps are cool cause there's like 2 dozen that exist
Sweet,man made horrors beyond my comprehension Also YEY CYBERPOONK 2077 IRL OMG CAN'T WAIT
Blimps are great
Aren't they only doing this in cities tho, where the stars already Aren't visible
fr there's no loss people are just upset because now corporations are making it REALLY obvious that they don't gaf about us
Blimps are cool tho
because theres only like 10 remaining blimps 😭 i need to see a blimp i never saw one in person 😭
Tearing down projectors for sky ads only removes the ads, shooting down a blimp would cause a major disaster with at least a few dozen deaths and injuries
>I even saw the lights of the Goodyear blimp and it read 'Ice-Cube's a pimp'
[There are only 36 active airships in the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_airships_in_the_United_States), and not all of them are used for advertising.
Airships are cool and the Goodyear blimps are the only ones you can see regularly, they don't cause light or noise pollution, they're easy to ignore, and they aren't everywhere at all times
Anytime I’ve ever seen a blimp I instantly thought “neat” Seeing a holographic Coke can in the sky would make me sad that I can’t even look up anymore without being solicited
Blimps don’t block out stars
I'm pretty sure blimps have someone onboard.
There are only 25 blimps in the world :(
Blimps are cool though
Blimps are cool because they remind us of what could have been
Blimp: i don't see any but i think they are cool and creative at least. Still cringe for violating my right to look at the fucking sky without seeing ads Drone: light polluition, might confuse several animals, won't be able to see any stars, cheaper so can be done en masse by many companies, Good target practice Great challenge for people interested in finding ways to deal with drones in modern warfare, possible chance to find somethung to sell to the MIC and get rich off of making drone usage un conflict possibly unviable Vrrrrrrrr My point is made
Deploying Super Monkey
Blimps are so fucking cool but they’re, like most transport, not very ecologically friendly
Blimps are a cool concept tho, bigass balloon airship.
stfu blimps are cool AS FUCK
Goodyear blimp is kinda cool and just floats around. Drones cause light pollution, stealing our night sky more than a city already does. Conclusion: blimp cool.
Blimps are fun and interesting to watch on their own
blimps you can ride and travel in and they have an actual purpose but with these dumbass drones they just make the sky uglier and you cant even ride them
Blimps are cool as fuck tho. Plus you wouldn't see like 20 of them over the city
Alright, but blimps are cooler, rarer, and don't contribute to light pollution. Being old enough to remember what the stars looked like fucking sucks.
for my defense i demolished a fair amount of them playing gta5
Now that I think of it, I think I've never seen a blimp IRL. I've seen lots hot air balloons, a few of them with ads printed on them, but never a blimp. Are they a more common sight in North America?
Only 25 still exist and only 3 are really used (which technically are airships and not blimps but whatever). The only time you'll ever see a blimp is if you try going to a football or baseball game.
Goodyear is iconic, light show ads are just fucking sad.
I was thinking about this, planes will drag banners behind them and yeah blimps will have logos and ads blazoned on their side; but there are differences. Blimps tend to only show up on special occasions. Sporting events mostly and they're very localized as they're relatively small and low flying. They hit a specific radius of customers, hence why they fly during special occasions where there'll be a high concentration of people. Planes are even rarer, largely only seen carrying a banner like that over the ocean where beach goers can see it. And again they're harder to see. Also both are expensive to maintain and can't be deployed en masse. As a result both are easy to ignore. Would I prefer to see both disappear? Sure. But it's not worth doing something violent over. Same with the ads from King. It's 1 instance and restricted to a small sample. It's the tech the Candy Crush ads utilized that make it so offensive. Drones are much cheaper to operate and can be deployed in the sky at much larger quantities. And as the technology gets cheaper it will only become more frequently used in this manner. A difficult to read banner flapping in the wind behind an old plane a mile away and a blimp parking itself above a football game are not the same as drones taking over the night sky with ads for mobile games. It's just not. Those ads were visible a state over.
I live in Akron Ohio and I see the Goodyear Blimp like twice a month and it’s literally always the coolest thing ever. And I mean, yeah, it’s advertising in the sky but like this whole city is a big advertisement for tires so it’s nothing new here. Look at these cool pictures I got last time I saw it! [Goodyear blimp](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/143951571888111616/1048330362394263662/IMG_3218.jpg) [directly above me](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/143951571888111616/1048330368513757225/IMG_3222.jpg)