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rinue ([personal profile] rinue) wrote2014-05-26 02:00 pm
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Not What I Ask For From Transportation Infrastructure

It seems to me I regularly see people (perhaps many people; perhaps just a few people loudly and frequently) extol the utopian value of airships, with a sense that in a just world we would all be cruising around in zeppelins rather than planes. While I will grant that air travel has become absolutely miserable and is now basically like catching a greyhound (Airbus is honestly named), there are very good reasons nobody's using balloons anymore. Among other things, they are tremendously difficult to steer. So sure, you can take off, and it's very stately, but where are you going? When will you get there? Difficult to know.

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