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   Steve Thompson PhD (stevethompson@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 03:11:26 JST Steve Thompson PhD

   "Google cofounder Sergey Brin's secretive 'air yachts' have been approved for flight"

   https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cofounder-sergey-brins-secretive-airships-lta-receive-faa-clearance-2023-10

   "Google cofounder Sergey Brin's airship company, LTA Research, announced it received clearance to begin outdoor flights for its massive Pathfinder 1."

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 05:41:03 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     • Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦

     @kboyd @SteveThompson not a problem. See, I've just discovered that there is *another* lighter-than-air gas called hydrogen. We can just use that for the airship.

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     Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 (kboyd@phpc.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 05:41:04 JST Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦

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     • Derek Caelin is writing a book

     @SteveThompson @derek gonna be really interesting for the future of humanity if the medical-aid-delivering airships end up exhausting the global supply of helium that is needed in part by the medical profession to run diagnostic equipment.

     (Though, in researching the state of things for this post, I found there are low- and no-helium MRI machines in development)