I thought I was keeping up with all the free public-domain projects, but somehow I missed this one. I've found one thing I've been looking for that's not on Google Books or Gutenberg (Norman bel Geddes's manifesto on Streamline Moderne, _Horizons_) and is hard to find in a library.
Surprisingly, real life is not like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon -- putting a bullet into a blimp or airship will not send it wooshing across the sky.
The design in TFA is 5 million cubic feet. At a guess, if you put 100 rounds of 50-caliber ammo completely through the envelope, you'd probably have up to 24 hours before the loss of helium would force the ship to land.
Last year, Lessig helped set up the case challenging the extension of copyrights in the US (cannot remember the case name for the life of me). He talked with experts on the Supreme Court, who advised him to concentrate on stories of people who were harmed by the law. Lessig instead set up a logical argument based on constitutional precedent, and his side lost the case. He's not making that mistake again.
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Youngsters, forgetting the classics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotimoline
I thought I was keeping up with all the free public-domain projects, but somehow I missed this one. I've found one thing I've been looking for that's not on Google Books or Gutenberg (Norman bel Geddes's manifesto on Streamline Moderne, _Horizons_) and is hard to find in a library.
Surprisingly, real life is not like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon -- putting a bullet into a blimp or airship will not send it wooshing across the sky. The design in TFA is 5 million cubic feet. At a guess, if you put 100 rounds of 50-caliber ammo completely through the envelope, you'd probably have up to 24 hours before the loss of helium would force the ship to land.
Last year, Lessig helped set up the case challenging the extension of copyrights in the US (cannot remember the case name for the life of me). He talked with experts on the Supreme Court, who advised him to concentrate on stories of people who were harmed by the law. Lessig instead set up a logical argument based on constitutional precedent, and his side lost the case. He's not making that mistake again.