Re: Bike to Anywhere Day Redux

On 2025-05-16, Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:

On 5/15/2025 8:25 PM, sms wrote:

Bike to Anywhere Day Redux
 

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Interestingly, I was on some of those same roads and trails this week.
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That wasn't a blimp. It was LTA Research's Pathfinder 1 rigid airship.
(A blimp is limp.) It's the largest flying machine currently existing. I
watched one flight from the northern end of the Stevens Creek preserve,
near GooglePlex. I've got contacts at LTA, and was given a facility tour
last Friday.
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(Yep, look at me!)

Holy Hindenberg, Batman, I didn't know there were any dirigibles flying.

It seems to be a disappeared part of history that there was indeed a few
years of the big ships flying hither and yon.

pH

slightly related, I recall reading that Helium supplies may be diminishing.
Of course we can make all the Hydrogen we want, but there's the "boom"
factor.