For some — most perhaps — airships seem a laughable holdover from antiquated, backward times. Conjuring images of noirish paleofuturist comic books and steampunk manga they have held ground in our collective imagination but lost it in real policy and practice.
This is unfortunate.
Air ships address many of the holes and negatives of our current [...]
We often hear about how terrible air travel is as sustainable and economic transportation. Here’s an interesting alternative, whose impossibility is compared to the semi-successful Chunnel.
Also, I love trains.
From Discovery Channel’s Extreme Engineering:
“A magnetically levitated train could theoretically take you from New York to London in 54 minutes. But you’d have to go 5,000 mph [...]