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High-Altitude 'Security Blimps' Coming Soon

Posted by michael on from the sky-is-the-limit dept.

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.'"

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  1. Emotional Thing by ChronoWiz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah I bet he wants it to be "a very emotional thing", so emotion clouds are rational thought which is screaming HOW MUCH OF A BAD IDEA THIS IS!!

  2. Re:Yeah, um by bplipschitz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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