Post Azg6MzAe5QD1O3b8jo by mitch@hoagie.cloud
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(DIR) Post #Azg2cYZAMy3jgvEji4 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-28T19:07:37Z
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some punk on the bay area reddit is like "what's this blimp flying over the bay?"blimp? BLIMP? BLIMP!?it clearly has an internal rigid structure, making it a zeppelin, not a blimp!
(DIR) Post #Azg2r3UICXKZe8s2QS by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-28T19:10:13Z
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It's LTA Research & Exploration's Pathfinder 1, a prototype helium-filled ZEPPELIN. It's one of google founder Sergey Brin's pet projects.
(DIR) Post #Azg2wi5yeLRH2NC4ky by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-28T19:11:12Z
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their horrible website features a 3d model of the ZEPPELIN which I might want to steal, just on principle:https://www.ltaresearch.com/technology
(DIR) Post #Azg30oKzNqMxYUAeQ4 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-28T19:11:37Z
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and you can see on FlightRadar24 that it's just doing loops around the bay:https://www.flightradar24.com/N125LT/3cdcc10d
(DIR) Post #Azg33uyf9YBh18D2um by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-28T19:12:28Z
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a quick tip to remember if something is a blimp or a zeppelin:if someone goes "wow, a blimp!" you can slap them and go "You ignorant clod, that's a zeppelin!"
(DIR) Post #Azg38WnYThErTVDDJA by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-28T19:13:25Z
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you will be correct approximately 99% of the time
(DIR) Post #Azg3OcDE7HAotptIEy by Ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-28T19:16:16Z
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@foone They seem to download basic GLTF (if not passed through draco compression), just throw https://www.ltaresearch.com/GLTF/airshipNew.gltf into your favorite installation of Blender and you're golden
(DIR) Post #Azg3ZxVdH8bg8UuQ1w by HorayNarea@chaos.social
2025-10-28T19:17:53Z
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@foone and for bonus points you can stand next to the person saying it's a Zeppelin, take a quick look on Flightradar and than probably slap them, saying: Zeppelin is just the manufacturers name, that's a rigid airship!(I'm sorry 🫣)
(DIR) Post #Azg3ajwZCIfkLvsbg0 by ddlyh@topspicy.social
2025-10-28T19:17:49Z
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@fooneOr a dirigible?
(DIR) Post #Azg3eQk4WvkHxUnMUi by jimp@masto.ai
2025-10-28T19:18:00Z
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@foone A most appropriate reaction to the sight:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zIlSVT4mBA
(DIR) Post #Azg3i0NOV1VvLRtNy4 by TheServitor@sigmoid.social
2025-10-28T19:18:49Z
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@foone Because helium is such a practical and endlessly available choice!(Cue discussion of moon-mining).
(DIR) Post #Azg3q68swgBhXoxt32 by cdamian@rls.social
2025-10-28T19:21:18Z
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@fooneA blimp is a fast balloonA zeppelin is a slow plane
(DIR) Post #Azg4ILvJrgLOb65n8q by attilakinali@society.oftrolls.com
2025-10-28T19:26:20Z
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@foone So, someone is reinventing the Zeppelin NT?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_NT
(DIR) Post #Azg4aUZwQKhOeZk6Vc by Slyence@mastodo.neoliber.al
2025-10-28T19:25:47Z
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@foone whatever captain buzzkill, dirigibles are awesome
(DIR) Post #Azg4aVqHj3MmZYOfce by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-28T19:29:41Z
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@Slyence they are, that's why I want people to understand them and properly name them!
(DIR) Post #Azg5APGRezLeb0kTo0 by beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-28T19:36:10Z
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@foone you can tell because blimps aren't made of led
(DIR) Post #Azg6CDERT0KdoOEjui by kboyd@phpc.social
2025-10-28T19:47:41Z
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@foone ah, like Comfrey MacLeod always said, "be gay steal zeppelins". (Well, I don't recall her being gay in the show, but she was the sort who was up for anything)
(DIR) Post #Azg6MzAe5QD1O3b8jo by mitch@hoagie.cloud
2025-10-28T19:49:32Z
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@foone technically hot air balloons with baskets count as blimps
(DIR) Post #Azg6qAHxpRwIGbw1nU by ann3nova@corteximplant.com
2025-10-28T19:54:55Z
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@foone Even Randy got it right in that one movie...
(DIR) Post #Azg8VS1ksk7P6pbVdA by jackemled@furry.engineer
2025-10-28T20:13:34Z
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@foone "Zeppelin" is a brand name! The generic term is "dirigible".
(DIR) Post #Azg8g2cdg5PDVBuECG by otte_homan@theblower.au
2025-10-28T20:15:00Z
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@foone so what are they going to do that is better than what the German company ZLT does? Or is this also just a modern day AI "we scraped the internet for content (with no regards to copyright or IP rights) operation? Like some _git clone https://zeppelin.de/ ._ sort of thing?
(DIR) Post #Azg9GVh54FPC5iNCWe by tekhedd@byteheaven.net
2025-10-28T20:22:01Z
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@foone I am always ready for an opportunity to say "dirigible" out loud.
(DIR) Post #AzgHIb6giDq35krCIS by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2025-10-28T21:52:05Z
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@foone Wow, thanks for that, I'm kinda shocked someone's making a rigid airship given their history (hydrogen, which everyone blames for the end of airships, was only a significant factor in them being destroyed because of the Royal Air Force igniting them intentionally, outside of WW-I most failed due to the difficulty making rigid airships work in bad weather. The worst airship accident was actually an American helium filled rigid airship, the USS Akron - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron.) It seems to be an inherent problem with the concept, given a lighter than air vehicle can be knocked into something else or twisted out of shape just by a gust of wind.Not that I'm against Brin doing this, so much research into stronger materials has been done in the 70 or so years that rigid airships have been avoided. I wish them luck.