The hubris of powered flight

jjohn on 2003-12-04T16:39:53

«A cameraman inside a Goodyear blimp was injured when the airship came loose from its moorings, drifted into a parked truck and nose-dived into a fertilizer pile beside a plant nursery.
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The blimp ended up about 300 yards from its landing site. »

--AP:Blimp Drifts Into Truck, Injuring One

When will man recognize the inherent folly of mechanized flight? These dirigibles are helium monsters of doom. If man were intended to fly, he'd have been born with an embedded jetpack.

Beware! Death from above!


Hubris and irony.

Louis_Wu on 2003-12-05T01:07:27

I'm at work a bit late, I see this journal entry, I remember that Wednesday the 17th is the 100th Anniversary of Powered Flight, then I look at the background image on my computer. The only thing missing, the one thing I needed to max out my irony meter, is to be reading this while in flight.

Do you know where I get an 'after-market' jet pack?