Why the heck are these people fooling around with airships at all? Yeah, they were going to shake up travel and change warfare, until they became better known for blowing up, helping Indiana Jones fight Nazis, and advertising above football games.
Yet the butt-blimp's builders are far from alone. At least nine commercial companies in six countries are competing to build functional airships. The US Department of Defense has reportedly spent more than a billion dollars in the last 15 years to develop the tech. Last year, a bipartisan group of congressmen formed the Cargo Airship Caucus. And that's because, nearly 80 years after the Hindenburg disaster killed 36, airships are again poised to revolutionize how humans move their stuff around the planet.
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