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High-Altitude 'Security Blimps' Coming Soon
quackking writes "The AP is reporting (in New York Newsday) that the Georgia Tech spinoff company TechSphere has sold their concept of immense (300 foot diameter), high altitude spherical surveillance blimps to the honchos at Fort Benning, GA, and production is beginning now! (more here.) These things are as big as a 30-story building. Meanwhile Lockheed-Martin is working on gigantic 500-foot long robot blimps, (and more here.) This would be 25 times the size of the well-known Goodyear blimp. Says Mayor Don Plusquellic, 'For Akron, it's a very emotional thing.'"
"Our Proud & Patriotic Security Blimps will roam the country in Freedom Flotillas keeping evildoers at bay."
- John Ashcroft
In America, You watch Good Year Security Blimp!
Security Blimps? And here I thought they were going to use the blimps to display something like: "Run Windows Update, People Who Own Spam-Bot Zombie Computers!"
admittedly I didn't look at the site... but thinking about giant security blimps reminded me of the "guards"...
No man is an island, but Gary is a city in Indiana.
Soon, a stout steamer will carry all of our correspondence be-tween the United States and the British Empire, reducing communication time to a scant six weeks! Huzzah!
....Does anyone else hear some spooky voice saying 'Must Spawn More Overlords!'
Maybe this is all just a mass coverup to crashing alien craft. The numbers of crashed alien vessels has increased to the point where we need to make sure we have enough high alt. blimps cruising around so that we can claim one crashed!
I've got them both beat... I'm working on a sport-utility blimp that's nearly the size of Australia!! The only problem I have so far is that it's a little hard to maneuver around smaller blimps.
Just think though, with enough robotic blimps spying on us, the satelites won't be able to see us. Will this mean I'll need to build a new kind of aluminum foil hat?
Bah, this is just the standard liberal attack from the mid-90s. And it's out of date. If you had been paying any attention to this decade at all, you would know that Rush is actually not particularly overweight these days; he managed to finally defeat his weight problem and turn his life around, thanks to a strict regimen of illegal perscription drug addiction.
Personally I think he is an example to us all.
Maybe large multi-nationals can sponser these blimps and fly them over sporting events. Wouldn't that be grand.
but only if they fill them with Hydrogen!
BTM
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
The next trend will be finding "coldspots
Most people here already have that covered. Now, if they'd only clean up the basement like their mothers keep asking they can be free of both parental harassment and goverment spying.
GURPS has a range of 1,650 yards.
Dungeons & Dragons v3.5 can reach about 1,240 yards but some some inexplicable reason is more popular.
The old Chivalry & Sorcery RPG had a range of nearly five miles, but figuring out how to shoot it could take years.
BEN: That's no moon! That's a Security Blimp!
My business: Farstrider Studios.
Gee, why don't they call them balloons?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
What if we put a frickin' las--- oh, never mind...
Well, duh.... 1. They'll make them out of that liquid-enhanced body armor discussed just a couple days ago, and 2. They'll fill them with all the helium produced as a by-product of cold fusion.
I was going to go with the:
I for one welcome our large, invisible, gas-filled overlords...um...version 2.0.
Just who is going to shoot at these things? You? I seriously doubt that since you can't even post on ./ while logged in.
And especially for covering up that statue's naked boob ...
Somebody set up us the bomb!
How ya like dat?