The image is being used to flog Dassault's product lifecycle management
software suite, rather than any proposed hardware:
http://www.3ds.com/industries/aerospace-defense/if-we/
Best copy I've found:
http://i.imgur.com/DKfwMgf.jpg
Artist/photographer is Erik Almås:
http://www.yatzer.com/Erik-Almas-Dassault-Systemes
http://www.erikalmas.com/
On 2015-01-24 12:46, [Traveller_TNE] wrote:
>
> Yikes. That pictures scares the hell out of me. It's a gorgeous picture,
> and good Traveller fodder, but the reference to Dassault requires me to
> think of it real-world, and that makes me very unhappy. The CG (center of
> gravity, not contra-gravity) on that thing is way out of whack, and if it
> isn't, the envelope is way too small. Zeps all carry water ballast, but
> they never carry up at the very top as it would be too unstable. So to get
> the CG far enough down they've got a lot more ballast at the bottom, and
> that envelope can't carry enough hydrogen, let alone helium, to float it.
> Unless Dassault is advertising its new CG (contra-gravity, not center of
> gravity) invention, that sucker is going to roll and all that water and
> all those nice tourists are going to get dumped. It's probably also pretty
> cold up there to be strolling around the Promenade Deck.
>
> I found three links below (and by the way, the first one has a much larger
> version of the picture in DED's link, which I like) all in Norwegian, so
> maybe Roger can tell us if it's just happy retro wool-gathering (like Doc
> Savage climbing aboard his Zep attached to the Empire State Building
> mooring mast--that didn't work out either) or if Dassault figures that
> Richard Branson is having too much fun killing people and they want in on
> the fun.
>
> http://www.vg.no/forbruker/reise/luftfart/luftens-fremtidige-cruiseskip/a/23269543/
>
> http://travelnews.no/2014/08/10/fly/fremtidens-cruiseskip-luften/
>
> http://travelnews.no/tag/luftskip/
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I stumbled across this ad for Dassault Systemes recently and my first
> > thought was Traveller! The link brings you to a picture of the cruise
> > ship without all the distracting text.
> >
> > http://static.travelnews.no/uploads/2014/08/Luftskip.jpg
> >
> > \_/
> > DED
> > TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
> >
> >
> >
>
>
--
Edward Swatschek -
software suite, rather than any proposed hardware:
http://www.3ds.com/industries/aerospace-defense/if-we/
Best copy I've found:
http://i.imgur.com/DKfwMgf.jpg
Artist/photographer is Erik Almås:
http://www.yatzer.com/Erik-Almas-Dassault-Systemes
http://www.erikalmas.com/
On 2015-01-24 12:46, [Traveller_TNE] wrote:
>
> Yikes. That pictures scares the hell out of me. It's a gorgeous picture,
> and good Traveller fodder, but the reference to Dassault requires me to
> think of it real-world, and that makes me very unhappy. The CG (center of
> gravity, not contra-gravity) on that thing is way out of whack, and if it
> isn't, the envelope is way too small. Zeps all carry water ballast, but
> they never carry up at the very top as it would be too unstable. So to get
> the CG far enough down they've got a lot more ballast at the bottom, and
> that envelope can't carry enough hydrogen, let alone helium, to float it.
> Unless Dassault is advertising its new CG (contra-gravity, not center of
> gravity) invention, that sucker is going to roll and all that water and
> all those nice tourists are going to get dumped. It's probably also pretty
> cold up there to be strolling around the Promenade Deck.
>
> I found three links below (and by the way, the first one has a much larger
> version of the picture in DED's link, which I like) all in Norwegian, so
> maybe Roger can tell us if it's just happy retro wool-gathering (like Doc
> Savage climbing aboard his Zep attached to the Empire State Building
> mooring mast--that didn't work out either) or if Dassault figures that
> Richard Branson is having too much fun killing people and they want in on
> the fun.
>
> http://www.vg.no/forbruker/reise/luftfart/luftens-fremtidige-cruiseskip/a/23269543/
>
> http://travelnews.no/2014/08/10/fly/fremtidens-cruiseskip-luften/
>
> http://travelnews.no/tag/luftskip/
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I stumbled across this ad for Dassault Systemes recently and my first
> > thought was Traveller! The link brings you to a picture of the cruise
> > ship without all the distracting text.
> >
> > http://static.travelnews.no/uploads/2014/08/Luftskip.jpg
> >
> > \_/
> > DED
> > TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
> >
> >
> >
>
>
--
Edward Swatschek -