The Aircruise - The future of luxurious and amazing sky hotels. - General

It's times like this when i realise that I AM LIVING IN THE FUCKING FUTURE (Or rather, will be in a few years). Eat your goddamn heart out, George Jetson.

[QUOTE=samframpton;26319985]Looks expensive to make, expensive to be in, and uneeded.[/QUOTE] so is video games it's still awesome

looks expensive but awesome

[quote=booster][img_thumb]http://www.sillyvillage.com/img/life/aircruise/aircruise5.jpg[/img_thumb][/quote] Pants, meet jizz.

And I'll drive up to it in my [i]FLYING CAR.[/i]

[QUOTE=booster;26319847] Now, I wouldn't expect seeing one of these in the air in a long time. But who knows, our technology is getting better and better every day. So maybe in a couple of decades, if you have the money, you could go on a trip you would never forget. I myself would definitely pay to go on one of these. Also, if I did any misspellings please tell me.[/QUOTE] Hi! Welcome to nearly a century ago! [img]http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/9334/hindenburg92.jpg[/img] Poor Hindenburg. It was designed to use helium, not hydrogen.

I would rather be on a boat cruise since it would be cheaper, and you can enjoy the scenery. You can't exactly see much when you are thousands of feet in the air. [editline]26th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=luverofJ!93;26320449][img_thumb]http://www.hydropole.ch/hydropole/hydrogen/imghistory/Hindenburg.gif[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Wasn't the hydrogen, but the water-proofing paint and static or something like that.

I would rather be on an Aircruise because it's more interesting and there's a lot more scenery. You can't exactly see much when you are surrounded by ocean.

I don't seeing this being airborne for another 20-30 years. Much less any of us regular folk being able to travel on it for an additional time period. It looks like it'd cost a couple of hundred thousand just to step foot on.

I would like the one by the bridge more than past the clouds. Slightly high, but close enough to the ground for emergency.

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;26320426]You know, this could be done without any of this lifting gas. Decades ago Buckminster Fuller calculated that a geodesic dome of a certain size would lift up into the air because the air inside would be lighter than the dome itself, that, along with the new nanotech materials that are being developed, could created entire "aircruises" like this that are lifted by nothing but air and the waste heat of the occupants.[/QUOTE] What kind of capacity would something like that be able to hold?

[QUOTE=Ghost394;26320500]So are cruise ships, but we still have those don't we?[/QUOTE] We do but the thing is, people go on Cruise Ships. Cruise Ships are pricey but if you save up for a couple of months you could afford a ticket. I don't picture anyone going on this besides CEO's and famous superstars. That's not going to net a lot of profit outside of the first few voyages.

I'd love to have sex in one of those rooms. Hell, I'd love to have sex in all of those rooms. Shit would be so cash.

So it's pretty much a fancy Zeppelin or a Dirigible? [b]Edit:[/b] Why the hell don't we use them anymore?

[img]http://seeker401.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/hindenburg.jpg[/img] Oh nooooo.

You're making love on the glass floor. And as you look down at your lover you notice the fucking perv with the binoculars eyeing your woman from the ground.

[QUOTE=waxrock;26324832]You're making love on the glass floor. And as you look down at your lover you notice the fucking perv with the binoculars eyeing your woman from the ground.[/QUOTE] Shit, you caught me. You must have some damn fine eyesight.

[QUOTE=luverofJ!93;26320449][img_thumb]http://www.hydropole.ch/hydropole/hydrogen/imghistory/Hindenburg.gif[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Yes it was designed to sub-par safety standards and initial plans had to be compromised due to lack of helium because of a US monopoly on the gas and building tensions in Europe during Nazi rule, all airships ever must be unsafe. Oh wait the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin]LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin[/url] made a trip around the world, 590 flights, had nine years of uninterrupted service, and has a perfect passenger safety record, later being scrapped for the war effort. And it was filled with hydrogen the whole time. For fuck sakes people, technology has advanced enough. Let's just build regular passenger rigid airships again.

Looks an awful lot like that one baddie from Neon Genesis.

That is pretty fucking scary, in my opinion. Wouldn't right that shit in my life time or the next.

But I'm afraid of heights...

Bioshock Infinite?

...and then a mild breeze appears, and you fly into Everest. The end!

Hmm, depending on how high up you go, wouldn't it get kinda cold? also what Apocalyso said, I guess they could put some sort of propeller system on it though

I'm still holding onto my imaginary voucher for a space elevator.

[QUOTE=larrylumpy;26326379]Hmm, depending on how high up you go, wouldn't it get kinda cold?[/QUOTE] It's pressurized, and designed for low level flight.

They've made a flying car, and a working jet pack. No reason for this to not work.

hindenburg II: electric boogaloo [editline]27th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=mastermaul;26324948]Yes it was designed to sub-par safety standards and initial plans had to be compromised due to lack of helium because of a US monopoly on the gas and building tensions in Europe during Nazi rule, all airships ever must be unsafe. Oh wait the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin]LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin[/url] made a trip around the world, 590 flights, had nine years of uninterrupted service, and has a perfect passenger safety record, later being scrapped for the war effort. And it was filled with hydrogen the whole time. For fuck sakes people, technology has advanced enough. Let's just build regular passenger rigid airships again.[/QUOTE] settle the fuck down he was making a joke

This thing gives me serious nightmares. Any acrophobic Facepunchers here?

Why the fuck would it need to move? Fuck that shit, floating apartments would be plenty satisfying.