Fucking horse in the background 💀
No, it’s just a water-walking horse.
A Balloon Supported Water Walking Horse…BSWWH for short. Pronounced bsh!
I’m glad we got ubiquitous smartphones instead of only rich people having flying cars.
Still, I’m promoting way, way more punk in our cyberpunk.
I feel ripped off yet again!
“Deutscher Kakao” 🤡
“German cocoa”
ah so german cacao is the red bull of the 1900s, it gives you wings.
Funny that you say that, they actually sold “Scho-Ka-Kola” (Cho-Ca-Cola) from 1935, which was chocolate with coffein.
Not to be confused with “Panzerschokolade” (tank chocolate), distributed in the 1940s, which was chocolate with meth.
There wasn’t any chocolate just meth.
It was an euphemism.
They just thought they’d do everything they did back then, but on water? And with mini blimps?
Fuck being able to buy a house or afford rent, people need mini blimps! (Right, it’s not just me?)
They just thought they’d do everything they did back then, but with balloons. They could already walk on water back then.
They were very into helium and balloons
I do like how it has the sensibilities at the time. Being super dangerous to anyone who uses it.
Literally just build a bridge, you hyper-individualistic consumer-centric assholes.
Now I’m wondering why we don’t attach giant balloons to ships to reduce water resistance by cutting down how much of the ship needs to be underwater. Perhaps it’s because you would need more size for the balloon, and maybe the air resistance and water resistance needs to even out due to physical laws that I’m too lazy to think about?
The boat already floats. What is the point of making it lighter? Boats are handy for transporting extreme weights because water weighs more than air.
If it should fly then get a Zepplin
Any amount of water contact introduces a fair amount of drag. There may be an ideal point somewhere in the middle, but I think if you take this to it’s natural conclusion you get a zeppelin.
I did a little bit of math and I think that to lift the payload capacity (including fuel and crew) of a modern day Panama canal ship you would need about a tenth of the peak U.S. helium reserve (a cube about half a kilometer long on each edge, about 1.3x longer than the long dimension of the ship)
I don’t think you’d get the best fuel efficiency going upwind lol
Anything smaller would come with proportionally less downsides and at least proportionally less benefits. I doubt it could ever be a net positive in any useful metric.
Hydrogen for sure. Partial lift for a boat has a lot of applications. Much more cargo than an airship, with no complications in flying empty. A fairly flat triangular “balloon” can be used as a solar platform, a sail, and be put in neutral wind mode down to the deck.
attach giant balloons to ships
I meam, we did get water skiing and stuff like that.
So, they did predict the water rising.
