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Cargo Airships Are Happening

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220 points elidourado | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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satisfice ◴[15 Oct 24 02:51 UTC] No.41844466[source]▶
The article said nothing about weather hazards or the fact that it’s a big fat target for a war drone to bring down.

It’s not just an easy target to hit, it’s a symbolic target.

Airships were abandoned because very large objects falling out of the sky did not appeal to the public… and too many of them fell.

Extremely severe weather brings down relatively tough aircraft, but once on the ground or in hangars they are relatively safe. Airships are flying cheesepuffs.

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imoverclocked ◴[15 Oct 24 03:01 UTC] No.41844501[source]▶
Luckily, we have much better weather forecasting than we did last time we tried airships for realsies.
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bobthepanda ◴[15 Oct 24 03:12 UTC] No.41844547[source]▶
Severe turbulence in clear conditions is increasing due to climate change: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-severe-turbulenc...
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1. mike_hearn ◴[15 Oct 24 10:19 UTC] No.41847011[source]▶
There has been no increase in air turbulence accidents per passenger mile over the past 30 years despite a quadrupling of air traffic (so more chances to encounter turbulence).

https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SS2101....

After normalizing the data by annual flight hours, there was no obvious trend over time for turbulence-related Part 121 accidents during this period [1989-2018].

The BBC article cites a modelling paper. In a conflict between real data and a simulation, real data should win.