From: The Butterfly (salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com)
Date: 05/30/00
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:39:09 -0700 Message-Id: <200005310539.WAA00713@bucky.sculptors.com> From: The Butterfly <salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: CargoLifter goes public!
I was listening to "The World" on BBC radio today, and they featured a
story about a company called "CargoLifter" which is a German Airship
company. They're looking to deploy a fleet of helium-filled derigibles
roughly twice the size of the Hindenburg. They are online at
http://www.cargolifter.com/ and have all sorts of cool pictures,
including a live web cam of what is apparently the world's biggest
hangar being built. It's 7:30am, local time, as I write this, and you
can see the sunrise glinting off the superstructure. :-)
It says that their first generation of ships will be designed to carry
up to 160 tonnes of weight, meaning that they'd be able to carry a
whole passle of autonomous houses for us, if we can get them into my
target weight range of 5-10 tons (without water ballast).
For those who are graphics/animation inclined, I've got an idea for an
animation showing autonomous houses being picked up at a factory
(fully assembled) by airship, and delivered to wherever they're
desired on the planet. This company apparently wants to do just
that...
If you're a graphics-head and want to help work on animations like
this, let me know.