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Zeppelins on Patrol?

Posted by michael on from the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction dept.

Our Man In Redmond writes "Everything old is new again: The Seattle Post-Inteligencer is reporting that NORAD is considering deploying zeppelins along the west coast and Canadian border to keep an eye out for terrorists. Larger than jumbo jets, easier to repair/upgrade than satellites, this may be an idea whose time has come. Again."

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  1. Platforms by t_allardyce · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They would make better wireless routers for internet access, someone was going to do this with planes but surely zeppelins would be cheaper. anyway, they would make a good platform for alsorts of things - traffic cameras, transmitters, phone-base-stations, wireless networks, laser-guided missile painters, radars, and spy-cameras for the american governments new plan to track everyone in the country. leave the canadians alone, if i was the canadian government i'd put up a big wall to stop americans getting in.

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  2. They Are Already on Patrol on US/Mexico Border by TreeKnot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We already have a version of these things up on the US/Mexican border. However, they are tethered to the ground...which is probably how they should stay.