As I was going to Burning Man...

[bluegargantua]

Right,

So, if I ever went to Burning Man, I'd always thought it'd be cool to have something like this:



Only now imagine that it's a wee bit bigger and there's a zeppelin docked at the top.

hee
Tom

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[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

-Zeppelins, bah! Autogyros, my friend. Autogyros.

[bluegargantua]

The clanking, clattering, clockwork contraptions of a cantankerous crew of cabbypants!

Autogyros must *land*!

Only a zeppelin can hover with unending menace. Looming in the skies like a veritable Sword of Damocles! Even when teathered to it's docking port, it remains suspended in the air casting its foreboding shadows down upon the hapless masses.

Zeppelins == teh HAWTT!
Tom

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

http://www.ciderpresspottery.com/ZLA.html

Includes a bibliography of books... with which to build your own rigid airship!

[mazianni.livejournal.com]

Shall I assume that you misspelled tethered with teat as some sort of Freudian slip? ;-)

[sarahluna.livejournal.com]

what does that flag say?

[bluegargantua]

Mind Fuck

I'm surprised you just didn't intuit it...
Tom

[sarahluna.livejournal.com]

hee...I thought it said hind fuck.

like bayeaux techno

[mpgalvin.livejournal.com]

hind
and bosom
hind
and bosom
hind hind h-h-hind
and bosom

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Okay if we get a zeppelin, even a mini-zeppelin and I'll go to burning man with you.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

we could tether it to Burning Man himself.

[harrison-ripps.livejournal.com]

Given that you haven't a pilot's license, I think you stand a better chance of fabricating the effect of a zeppelin that actually having one.

1) Build the cabin in pieces (or buy a double-wide and redecorate the interior to zeppelin-inspired taste)

2) sew a zeppelin-shaped bldder, mount it to the cabin on site and fill it with many helium baloons.

3) Tether it to your tower and pray to all that is holy that the tether holds.

Admittedly, if you were to go the serious route (as in, get a PPL, buy a zeppelin, and fly it to Burning Man with your boarding tower stowed beneath the cabin), I would pray to you as a deity.

[bluegargantua]

I have no idea how you would even get a license to fly a zeppelin. That's not a pilot's license, that's like a rider that goes on top of a license (like being able to fly double engines or jets). I'm pretty sure that in the US, the only thing close is a blimp pilot license and basically you have to work for Goodyear to get one.

As for "buying" a zep, well, that's pretty much right out. There's a company in Germany looking to build a heavy cargo lifter model, but it's way more zep than I need.

later
Tom

[sben.livejournal.com]

Alas:

"By the insolvency of the enterprise in May 2002 resounds their original regulation has lost. Instead therein in December 2004 the first and only Tropenparadies Europe was opened: the Tropical Iceland Resort." (Translation from the German, found at http://www.cargolifter.de/, provided by Google.)

(We can still dream, though.)

[sben.livejournal.com]

What's the context of that picture (e.g. year, name of camp, URL, whatever)? A bunch of friends built something at their camp that sounded very much like this.

[bluegargantua]

It's from Burning Man 2005. And it's called Mind Fuck. That's really all I know.

later
Tom

[doctordidj.livejournal.com]

It's Camp Mind Fuck, which was close by us (Automatic Subconscious) like around 7:00 and Esplanade. I meant to climb up the tower, but never got around to it -- too much else going on!

[drwex]

As I was going to Burning Man
I met a man who said "I can!"

(your turn)