This was nowhere near the only deadly airship disaster, nor was it the last, but that’s not really what ended airship travel. With the advances in airplanes by the end of World War II, lighter-than-air ships just couldn’t compete. Even postwar piston aircraft were cruising at more than 3 times the speed of most airships with range to make nonstop transatlantic crossings, and once the jet age really started to take hold in the ’50s it was all over. I mean, by the ’60s multiple countries had started supersonic passenger aircraft programs. Not a lot of success there, but still there were nowhere near enough customers to support commercial service on airships when faster, cheaper options existed.
Hindenburg only carried 70 passengers at its largest configuration, and it could only carry that many because they were forced to use hydrogen as the lifting gas instead of helium because of American export restrictions. Hydrogen carries more but is significantly more dangerous, and likely would not be used in any modern aircraft because of safety reasons. Perhaps modern advances in lighter materials and other weight saving methods could help, but even 100 paying passengers doesn’t seem commercially viable.
I don’t really know if ARM adds benefits I’d really notice as an end user, but it’ll be interesting to see if this really goes through and upends the dominant architecture we’ve seen for really 40+ years.
Yeah, I’ve played plenty of Civilization over the years, but I’m married now. I have a kid. I keep a note with what I’m doing because it might be a couple months before I play again. I could play more, but I want to spend time with my wife and my kid. Usually when I take time to play I want to play again the next night, but that’s often not feasible, and then it turns into weeks again.
That analyst doesn’t work for Broadcom; it’s a third party. It could say, “they charged as much as they could possibly get away with” but I think “prices just below the pain threshold” is stronger language in a business setting.
It only took one shareholder to sue and invalidate his last compensation package. I suspect that same shareholder or a few others are game to try it again, especially if this time it’s coming from a more direct threat to the company and those shares’ value.
That’s a good idea. A salsa con queso dip can actually be good on a hot dog, but I don’t think olives would go with it. Maybe a one-or-the-other situation.
I get your point; I don’t really trust our closest Kia dealership and my wife’s Soul had the issue with the motor burning too much oil, which eventually killed the motor and took 7 weeks to replace. Kia paid for it all (including the Bolt EUV rental we wound up in which was my first long-term experience with an EV), but it was still a hassle. Still, I’m really interested in an EV9 when we’re looking at a new car.
Ah, I didn’t quite understand from the first picture. I thought this was like one of those loafs I’ve seen in Quebec where they slice the bread the long way.
This is just talking about games approved through Valve’s verification process. There are a lot of games that work that are “unverified”, not to mention the entire history of gaming available through emulation....
This was a couple weeks ago. He said he wanted to try me on stimulant medication, but I needed to go get clearance from my primary care doctor because I’ve also been dealing with some tachycardia. She put me on a beta blocker, although hopefully with better time-management and more energy I’ll exercise enough to eventually...
There are a couple Data is Beautiful communities, !dataisbeautiful and !dataisbeautiful that could be good fits for content like this, but of course it’s always fine for here, too.
I found these links that look useful from the St. Louis Fed and Census Bureau that look interesting; the Census in particular looks like they offer home construction data going back to the 1950s in Excel format. That could be interesting to play with.
I do seem to remember articles about how many new homes have been built since especially the ’90s as interest rates came down, and how much larger houses started getting. Also anecdotally, apart from your example of finishing basements, I’ve noticed more and more older homes on desirable property being torn down and larger homes being built in their place, some of the old homes being as new as the 1980s and rarely even newer.
Burton Catledge, Launch on Demand’s CEO, said the study will focus on the Oviedo area to the south of the island nation and include flight corridor analysis, climatology assessment, physical security evaluation, airspace/maritime impacts, and frequency deconfliction.
That doesn’t make sense; they’ll have to worry about flying over Puerto Rico and much of the Leeward Islands from there. Launch from the north of the island and it looks like they could avoid most land quite easily.
The author’s conclusion has me wondering what would it take to build a really good new system? Could we make a paid version, at a cost users would find reasonable to grow to a large enough base, and one that is incentivized to find users the best links quickly? Unlike how Google has been moving in recent years
An interesting story about a rarely discussed feature of the Space Shuttle, that lives on in the commercial crew capsules, to prevent travelers from killing everyone onboard.
A couple games popped up on my Steam wishlist at really low prices so I was thinking of getting them, but I’ve also had a few older computers recently that are losing Steam client support. This got me thinking I should really try to compare and get more games on GOG so it doesn’t matter if a client stops working on older...
Anon wants to ride a zeppelin (sh.itjust.works)
Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs (arstechnica.com)
Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds (www.ign.com)
It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Elon Musk confirms his threat: give me 25% of Tesla or you don't get AI and robotics (electrek.co)
Are we sure this isn’t illegal? It seems illegal
Nathan's should sue (lemmy.today)
Kia EV3 revealed as sub-£30k electric SUV with 373-mile range | Autocar (www.autocar.co.uk)
Someone call the UN, Japan is committing war crimes again (lemmy.today)
No, this is not a fake product: www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/…/ar-BB1kXCeZ
Extra Thick Bread Slice (sh.itjust.works)
Found a piece of bread in a store bought loaf that didn’t get sliced properly.
Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch (www.pcgamesn.com)
This is just talking about games approved through Valve’s verification process. There are a lot of games that work that are “unverified”, not to mention the entire history of gaming available through emulation....
So that's probably a Yes (i.imgur.com)
This was a couple weeks ago. He said he wanted to try me on stimulant medication, but I needed to go get clearance from my primary care doctor because I’ve also been dealing with some tachycardia. She put me on a beta blocker, although hopefully with better time-management and more energy I’ll exercise enough to eventually...
Average size of homes in selected EU countries and USA (lemmy.world)
I don’t know if there’s a place on Lemmy yet to post interesting charts/graphs, so I’ve just been dropping stuff here.
Tornado destroys windmills in Iowa. 5/21/2024 (youtu.be)
Picked up a book on ADHD from the library; it still has someone else’s bookmark in it (i.imgur.com)
I figure that tracks
Service that exchanges your head with a celebrities head, powered by blockchain freedom points. (www.hindustantimes.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/12444579...
Dominican Republic considering its own commercial spaceport (spacenews.com)
I forgot Bill Paxton had died (i.imgur.com)
I guess they’re making a Twister sequel, Twisters...
Rick and Morty should do a crossover with The Peanuts.
Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13990064...
Have you ever heard of the Commander’s Lock? (arstechnica.com)
An interesting story about a rarely discussed feature of the Space Shuttle, that lives on in the commercial crew capsules, to prevent travelers from killing everyone onboard.
Are you using GOG games on your Steam Deck?
A couple games popped up on my Steam wishlist at really low prices so I was thinking of getting them, but I’ve also had a few older computers recently that are losing Steam client support. This got me thinking I should really try to compare and get more games on GOG so it doesn’t matter if a client stops working on older...