Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: July 30, 2025, 12:04 am

Thread Rating:
  • 1 Vote(s) - 5 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Shit I never knew about blimps/ballooning until today:
  • When first pitched to Louis XVI, his initial plan was to test it using condemned criminals.
  • The first major use of ballooning: military espionage. Including a Union Army Balloon Corps.
  • If you remember the Monty Python clip of Ferdinand von Zeppelin going ballistic at people calling his airship a balloon, while he never tossed anyone out of the gondola for misnaming the airship, he was somehow more batshit crazy than that.
  • The much touted safety record of blimps and zeppelins? It's not because it's intrinsically safer than planes or other means of conveyance (quite the opposite, really). It's because the Zeppelin corporation and the companies that control the few blimps around today have a shitton of rules covering when it's supposed to fly, and if it's likely that there are any averse conditions, the pilot ain't going to fly it.
  • Notable downside of a one-week transatlantic blimp flight: no showers.




Other odd shit, they had Bluthner make a special aluminium piano for the Hindenburg (to keep weight down.) It was removed before the fateful final voyage, but was destroyed in an Allied air raid. And if this footage is any indication, it sounds like something The Caretaker would jizz himself over:



Admittedly, this could be the age of the film stock and soundtrack, but higher quality videos of other aluminium pianos do exist, and they sound unusual. I'd show you, but there's still one more video I'd like to show you before I hit the 3-video limit: recently unearthed footage of the disaster that actually is at a better angle than the famous footage we all know about:


Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]

I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday? - by Rev. Rye - July 28, 2022 at 12:10 pm
I seriously DID NOT know this. - by Brian37 - August 24, 2021 at 12:27 pm
RE: I seriously DID NOT know this. - by no one - August 24, 2021 at 12:36 pm
RE: I seriously DID NOT know this. - by Ravenshire - August 24, 2021 at 4:53 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  How's the weather treating you today? Silver 595 43597 July 17, 2025 at 5:53 am
Last Post: Alan V
  What do you NOT know today that you knew yesterday? The Valkyrie 11 1672 October 31, 2024 at 3:54 am
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  What did you know yesterday that you don't know today? Gawdzilla Sama 14 2377 December 4, 2023 at 9:43 am
Last Post: brewer
  Awfully quiet today. arewethereyet 29 4776 April 9, 2023 at 6:34 pm
Last Post: Secular Elf
  Happy Birthday to all the members who were "born" today! Jehanne 7 1643 January 4, 2023 at 1:08 pm
Last Post: HappySkeptic
  So much for going to town today. onlinebiker 11 2366 February 19, 2021 at 3:43 pm
Last Post: onlinebiker
  My uncle died from COVID19 today. Jehanne 17 2534 November 26, 2020 at 1:50 pm
Last Post: Losty
  Last movie you didn't watch Fake Messiah 43 5574 November 16, 2020 at 7:02 pm
Last Post: Fake Messiah
  I heard from Rob today! ReptilianPeon 2 905 March 29, 2020 at 4:36 pm
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  Today was a good day...why? arewethereyet 35 6001 March 5, 2020 at 5:14 pm
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4



Users browsing this thread: 5 Guest(s)