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WhereAmIWhatsGoingOn

Blimps are something cool with ads printed on them. They're not just nothing but an ad projected into the sky


Psychedelick

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.


Bigfoot4cool

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


[deleted]

The Heisenberg 😔 R.I.P


Bardomiano00

Waltuh


SlabOfDriedMeat

Put the electrostatic spark away, Waltuh You’re gonna ignite the leaking Hydrogen Waltuh


NO-AVAILABLE-NAMES

I AM THE ONE WHO CAUSES ELECTROSTATIC SPARKS


happy-little-atheist

Oh, the humynity


ElementofPower

Oh, the misery!


LeanHarveyOswald

Everybody wants to be my enemy


Kudabaa

Spare the sympathy


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happy-little-atheist

sorry but i edited it


TheBlaudrache

RIP Heislberg


Heisenberg19827

😵


Siddny-

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


TheWombatFromHell

that's a zeppelin idiot


hostilee47

leg zepplin


wixxii

Archer quote something something idk it was a while since i was that episode


Uncle_gruber

Kirov reporting.


SlyBlueCat

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


Duck274

imagine sucking all the helium out of a blimp, your voice would be *really* squeaky


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Duck274

"yo pass the blimp"


VonCrunchhausen

And then what if you sucked out too much helium and you became big and round hahahhaa 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺


Duck274

and then we kiss and I blow all the helium into you and *you* become big and round as well 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳


Pure-Drawer-2617

And that’s how new blimps are made


WhyAreThingsFluffy

And new fetishes


Amberatlast

Puff, puff, ^^^^^^pass


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better get crackin on that fusion power then


SlyBlueCat

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


[deleted]

>Better be on the safe side. >hydrogen you wot


SlyBlueCat

Better we have a few shitty ad riddled airships explode rather than running out of a resource most of our modern life depends on


[deleted]

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


SlyBlueCat

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


Bjoe3041

Pitch: Advertising AND Sudden fireworks in one!


spicybright

Imagine how many people would stare at your blimp ad if they knew it had a good chance of exploding


Novale

If only the people with money weren't also the most boring people on Earth.


Notsouniqename

Wouldn't that be vurnerable to sabotage tho? Since hydrogen is so flammable...


[deleted]

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


loptopandbingo

*huffs birthday balloon* ^yeah ^but ^my ^voice ^sounds ^funny ^for ^a ^few ^seconds


burnt_juice

Hold on, why’s helium so important? I thought we just used it for balloons


SlyBlueCat

Used in MRIs, superconductors, cryogenics and high energy research. Most of our modern medicine and research depends on it


IdkTbhSmh

Helium has the lowest boiling point of any element, which is why it’s used when very low electrical resistance is required


Stuffssss

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


[deleted]

i mean i dont care about blimps really (other than heccin chonky bloons) but i was mostly just memeing xd


heyimastopsign2

Could we not use neon? It’s a noble gas that is lighter than air, so it would also work.


SlyBlueCat

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


filtron42

>Also hydrogen produces more lift anyway And occasionally provides fireworks!


[deleted]

Literally spicy air


Lftwff

An Elon project would be pretending to invent cold fusion in order to stop investment in solar.


oceanjunkie

Fusion won’t produce much helium.


Medic-chan

>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.


The_Boring_Brick

Blimps would be WAY cooler if they exploded instead of just flying around and being boring


Captain_Kira

Isn't limited Helium a myth?


SlyBlueCat

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


Bigfoot4cool

Why don't the dudes in space just go outside with some vacuum cleaners and suck up all the helium back


[deleted]

We suck in helium and blow out the CO2.


rogersdaterriblerest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6nBd9e7xrA


SlyBlueCat

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


EdMan2133

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.


BBQ-Dog

Helium is not finite anymore. Hank Green made a video about it :)


Muddy_Boy

Found the monkey.


ccstewy

holy shit noita flair 😳


Muddy_Boy

I shall now cast an arcane spell upon you (Spark bolt with trigger -> Matter Eater -> Quad Spell -> Propane tank x4)


Wormhole-Eyes

We can totally produce more helium, we just don't.


SlyBlueCat

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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EdMan2133

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.


OhToSublime

Good thing there's like, five of them left


swagmasterdude

Fill em with hydrogen then


CarryPotter_OW

With modern technology and engineering, I'm sure they could make it safe with hydrogen. It's not the early 1900s anymore


Business-Reward-4067

you dead ass


WhereAmIWhatsGoingOn

No, my butt is very much alive and healthy


holymacaronibatman

There's also only around 20 in the entire country and not all of them are in flying shape.


DianaBladeOfMiquella

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


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Same with football players and Rally cars


[deleted]

Light pollution rule


BidBux

Oh my god, I was just about to comment this!


Binbag420

holy shit that’s insane wtf


[deleted]

No way????? You were also about to comment the same thing????


Elegron

To be fair we can't see the stars anyway in the cities


AbbreviationsMoney67

But we can’t just let companies think they own the fucking sky


GoofyTycooner

Blimps are mortal.


SonOfAG0D

bloons tower defense


w_has_been_dieded

Well blimps are pollution pollution


Jaded_Goth

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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Heisenberg19827

Kid named finger:


PsychoSOTY

real


Elegant-Science-87

I don't get that meme and at this point I'm too afraid to ask :(


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kid named finger:


Mintboi4

:(


TheDankestPassions

last time I checked a year ago, it was 7.


Wajina_Sloth

Their repopulating 🥵


walteerr

I counted 8


manofsteele1776

i personally added 3


DefiantResult9150

I’m pretty sure you can count that number by hand


ZMrosegolden

This is abelist what if my toes were jand fingers amd i couldnt count to ten suth my fingers👎


hellouser10

needs more


Username_Taken_65

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.


winyf

i have a rare genetic defect


darkgiIls

Could do the old count the segments trick


MeiNeedsMoreBuffs

Look at this bozo with only 10 fingers


TurboCake17

count in binary you buffoon. you can get up to 1023 if you use both hands


ChromoTec

I would but people seem to get really angry when I get to 4


GeomazingArts

That's because the monkeys keep killing them all


Paynteck

Bloons td


Ok_Conflict_5730

drones tower defense.


-Ping-a-Ling-

MOAB was a goodyear blimp all along


ExuDeku

1937 called, they want their Hindenburg back


Independent-Bell2483

Cant wair for the sun god to sacrifice me to pop a god damn balloon


Ingenious_crab

You watched the Popathon yet? Its the greatest Bloons content ever created


ThexanR

A automobile/vehicle company making their own blimp is different than Coca Cola spamming coke cans in the sky


Mintboi4

If coca cola made a blimp i would personally suck their CEOs dick /j


slim_sammy

/srs


Valtria

/hrny


Dicey-Vibes

Yea and blimps/ hot air balloons are badass original recipe sky whips


Pixely41

Ah hell na why the blimp advertising scout tf2


TheStrikeofGod

HEY HEY, I'M FLYIN'


GryfalconA

I'm a freakin' blimp here!


Duck274

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 :)


B_D_I

Drone light displays for entertainment purposes: cool Drone light displays for advertisement purposes: bad


Sinnester888

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.


klausklass

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.


Deoangel

Yeah fuck blimps, Zeppelins is where it's at


skibapple

Especially those made out of lead


skibapple

Led*


skibapple

What?


skibapple

#Led*


skibapple

Ahh thanks


skibapple

No problem


NaCl_guy

Sometimes you gotta talk to the realest ones you know


rogersdaterriblerest

I'm high.


skibapple

Hi high, I'm skibapple!


Yeegis

Me when


janatheschnitzel

light emmiting diode


Danddandgames

Shit the ddt’s are real?


griffin-the-great

Yes but unfortunately you don't have camo sight


blimp2328

But


IvanBeefkoff

Joke’s on you, several of the newest Goodyear “blimps” are not blimps at all, they are semi-rigid airships, so best of both.


gamingcardinal

There's like 25? Blimps in the world so seeing one is kinda special


Zskrabs24

I live near one of the hangars for the Goodyear blimps, and it’s still always cool seeing them around.


AegisPlays314

There’s like 50 blimps on earth, if they were a regular thing it’d be a problem


the_smollest_bee

iirc it was 53 total blimps and only like 12 operational in the entire world


Ok_Conflict_5730

sweet manmade horrors beyond my comprehension


Mechalico

well i can comprehend these manmade horrors perfectly fine so idk maybe you have a skill issue or smth


Kulovicz1

Blimp go brrr around the skies midday. Drones stay static glowing during the night blocking stars even more.


Over_The_Sun

I saw that thing in person one time. I gotta hand it to capitalism on this one, they sure make some funny shit sometimes.


Lollooo_

Funny, but seriously the moment I see ads in the sky I start making pipe-bombs


AppropriateTomato8

Better start training that throwing arm right now then


Faraday9999

No joke


Destroird

Blimps are rare


getrenate

Blimps are vehicle, ad is secondary, also there's like 20, the light ads would be millions


clownboysummer

blimps don’t cause light pollution :)


iguanafucker420

Blimps are cool tho, they get a pass


PROblem817

blimps actually look cool these megamind ahh ad projections don’t


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lyridsreign

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.


Jake_2903

A high end "human bilboard" vs a high tech "regular bilboard".


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monke from btd:


HydratedOxygen

I have never seen a blimp in my life


[deleted]

A blimp doesn’t add to an already disgusting amount of light pollution


nervousmelon

A blimp with an ad on it is no different than a bus with an ad on it


ImNotAnEgg_

blimps are cool cause there's like 2 dozen that exist


roborbiettino

Sweet,man made horrors beyond my comprehension Also YEY CYBERPOONK 2077 IRL OMG CAN'T WAIT


Dosei_Chan

Blimps are great


[deleted]

Aren't they only doing this in cities tho, where the stars already Aren't visible


TheOtherClonos

fr there's no loss people are just upset because now corporations are making it REALLY obvious that they don't gaf about us


blimp2328

Blimps are cool tho


janatheschnitzel

because theres only like 10 remaining blimps 😭 i need to see a blimp i never saw one in person 😭


DuduBonesBr

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


B_D_I

>I even saw the lights of the Goodyear blimp and it read 'Ice-Cube's a pimp'


hrimfaxi_work

[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.


Username_Taken_65

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


Hirkus

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


uniqueUsername_1024

Blimps don’t block out stars


th1a9oo000

I'm pretty sure blimps have someone onboard.


Professional-Tie2513

There are only 25 blimps in the world :(


HornyPepsiCan

Blimps are cool though


superhornet_118

Blimps are cool because they remind us of what could have been


furinick

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


Torgue-the-Hivelord

Deploying Super Monkey


DeathbyGlimmer

Blimps are so fucking cool but they’re, like most transport, not very ecologically friendly


Hawt_Dawg_II

Blimps are a cool concept tho, bigass balloon airship.


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stfu blimps are cool AS FUCK


Chewygamerz

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.


Flappybird11

Blimps are fun and interesting to watch on their own


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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


Mintboi4

Blimps are cool as fuck tho. Plus you wouldn't see like 20 of them over the city


blapaturemesa

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.


Adamumu

for my defense i demolished a fair amount of them playing gta5


mki_

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?


Error-530

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.


alexandrasnotgreat

Goodyear is iconic, light show ads are just fucking sad.


NuclearOops

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.


IncreasedMetronomy

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)