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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.'"
In Soviet Russia, Security Blimp watching you!
(had to be done...)
no no, in America - security blimp watching you, in soviet russia, you watch security blimp!
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The japs made a crude from of balloon which they launched during WWII at the west coast of the US. These balloons counted the ups and downs during the day/night cycle and after something like 35 or days then it just dropped a bomb. I believe a few hundred of these things were created and launched and only a few made it across the pacific. There was only one casualty as I recall. A man on a pick nick with his family spotted one and went over to look at it: this set off the bomb killing him instantly.