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From: pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
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Subject: Re: Bike to Anywhere Day Redux
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 15:08:43 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-16, Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/15/2025 8:25 PM, sms wrote:
>> Bike to Anywhere Day Redux
>> 
<snip>
>
> Interestingly, I was on some of those same roads and trails this week.
>
> That wasn't a blimp. It was LTA Research's Pathfinder 1 rigid airship. 
> (A blimp is limp.) It's the largest flying machine currently existing. I 
> watched one flight from the northern end of the Stevens Creek preserve, 
> near GooglePlex. I've got contacts at LTA, and was given a facility tour 
> last Friday.
>
> (Yep, look at me!)


Holy Hindenberg, Batman, I didn't know there were any dirigibles flying.

It seems to be a disappeared part of history that there was indeed a few
years of the big ships flying hither and yon.

pH

slightly related, I recall reading that Helium supplies may be diminishing. 
Of course we can make all the Hydrogen we want, but there's the "boom"
factor.