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.
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.
Hi
Assume photo! I can just see the PCs going on vacation while their ship gets its an maintenance done, and something happens. Or a big gambling convention and they are security looking for cheaters. Murder on the Orient Express type mystery. Or a Guild or pirate spy is meeting a contact onboard and the PCs have to find, or recover the information or spy's contact. Maybe they are the contact and are passing false information, setting up a trap for a enemy ship, this just screams someone wanting payback in the future. Or hired as extra security because "someone" wants the ship to never fly or to crash. Or the PCs are onboard for various reasons and first meet. They band together to survive something, use RL cruise ship problems. My favorite, the captain and crew abandon the ship because the lifters prove to be fatly and are allowing the ship loaded with passengers to slowly sink into that beautiful backdrop. Be funny if no one picked the survival skill and someone thought to run into the ship's library to came up with a book on survival. How confident would the passengers be if the PC started to read out of a book entitled "How to Survive Cruise Line Disasters for Dummy's" Chapter One; If your reading this, YOU ARE TOAST.
Thanks for sharing that beautiful photo
Roger
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.
> 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
>
>
>
I agree it was an issue I was pointing out to a group I game with. However if you look at the above and below water structures of a modern cruise ship they're ridiculously top heavy too.
My thing is what the hell are they using for lift because there's not nearly enough airbag to support that much mass. I'm running a space 1889 game, perhaps Dassault had a Liftwood supply they're not talking about.
Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPhone...
> On Jan 24, 2015, at 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
On 25 Jan 2015, at 13:18, "DEREK STANLEY [Traveller_TNE]" <> wrote:
> I agree it was an issue I was pointing out to a group I game with. However if you look at the above and below water structures of a modern cruise ship they're ridiculously top heavy too.
>
> My thing is what the hell are they using for lift because there's not nearly enough airbag to support that much mass. I'm running a space 1889 game, perhaps Dassault had a Liftwood supply they're not talking about.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...
>
> On Jan 24, 2015, at 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> I agree it was an issue I was pointing out to a group I game with. However
> if you look at the above and below water structures of a modern cruise
> ship they're ridiculously top heavy too.
>
> My thing is what the hell are they using for lift because there's not
> nearly enough airbag to support that much mass. I'm running a space 1889
> game, perhaps Dassault had a Liftwood supply they're not talking about.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...
>
>> On Jan 24, 2015, at 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
Thanks, Ed. If their software suite says that pretty thing can fly, I
wouldn't trust it...
I've seen some pretty weird ads in the aviation press. There was a crazy,
"we rule everything" ad from the Rosocopter or whoever, and then an
article about somebody's aviation experience where the illo is a radial
engine with a big mirror in front of the cylinders. Sure, it's pretty,
reflecting the sunset and all that, but the engine won't work. So much for
all their aviation experience.
> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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