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Cargo airships are happening (www.elidourado.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by poVoq to c/technology

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[–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

also, see CargoLifter for a similar project around the year 2000 which raised crazy amounts of money and then failed completely because of fundamental problems.

[–] poVoq 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

They didn't fail due to technical problems. At least try to do proper research next time.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Running out of money is a fundamental problem.

[–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

They ran out of money. After realising that their original idea wasnt really that realistic and building a cargo airship is really really hard.