Why hasn't moden technology provided us with house air ships?

[Syrch]

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
http://www.personalblimp.com/index.html

start here and add up...

a house ship is a bit of a ways from this lol

 

[Kwaipie]

Having ST:TNG style replicators would make this thing much more doable.

 

[Sureshot324]

How would get to it other than landing it everytime you want to buy groceries? You can't land a plane on it and I dont' think using helicopters would be safe.

 

[Xavier434]

To be honest, the #1 reason for this invention not existing is because it would not make any money.

The reason for not making money is a combination of everything already stated in this thread and much more. In fact, I would say that the #1 reason that many inventions do not exist today is because of money. Engineers and software guys have so many great ideas all of the time. Many of those ideas are voiced but shot down because no one believes that the idea will sell.

 

[clickynext]

You're right! We should do this ASAP so that in 10 years, no one will have to live on the ground anymore!

 

[AdamK47]

Such as? Solar Power? What about in northeast when theres cloud cover 3 months of the year?

Energy derived from waste, wind energy, gas tanks. The gas tanks would be filled with a light inert gas such as helium.

and again where is the fuel coming from? Where is it being stored? if its being stored on board what kind of liability is there if theres an explosion?

See above

then how would you navigate where it falls? Its a giant house..can't really guide it without fuel

Designated landing zones. The house would have an automatic procedure to attach itself to magnetic rails that will lower the house the rest of the way down. After a landing it would be requried by the government to have an inspection and have all nessesary fuels recharged to appropriate levels.

True but this would be a LONG way out.

Think of the children!

So your address wouldn't be permanent? How would you get your mail?

Electronically by the currently established wireless towers. The house would have to reside near a package drop off zone for material packages. The civilianized predator drone will fetch the package via a preprogrammed routine. Heavier packages would need to physically be lifted into the house at it's next docking.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: Syrch
how do you get back up into your House air ship? I go grocery shopping and pick up my groceries. Do i have to throw them 100's of feet in the air onto my porch or is there a really long rope i have to use?

The drone

Edit: Getting in would be done at a landing site with a mechanical lift. The lift would be used to get heavier objects in the house as well.

 

[AmpedSilence]

i call shens on this thread.

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: AdamK47

Originally posted by: Syrch
how do you get back up into your House air ship? I go grocery shopping and pick up my groceries. Do i have to throw them 100's of feet in the air onto my porch or is there a really long rope i have to use?

The drone

Lol you mean like the empire's drones in Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back? Unfortunatly the technology is not quite there yet.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Floating Condo Associations! W00t!

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[kevman]

you know what the shipping cost woudl be from all the hot deals I get here? forget about it, thats why I wouldn't move to alaska either.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Floating Condo Associations! W00t!

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Now all we need to do is to shrink it into house form.

 

[Syrch]

lol there are just say too many variables. You'd have to rebuilt modern society. And that is no next day feat.

 

[bignateyk]

why the hell would I want a house that floats around? Technology that noone wants isnt going to be invented...

 

[AdamK47]

I predict in the next 15 years there will be people living on air ships.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Feasibility issues aside, why would anyone want one? I'm sure that there are one or two people on the planet with the money and the arrogance to do it for the "cool factor", but that'll never get an entire industry started. Building, maintaining, and living in an air-house would create more problems than it solves.

OP tell me, why exactly would YOU want one, other than the fact that it's a nifty idea. What practical reason is there to do this instead of something else?

 

[BigJ]

As if people needed more proof that getting drunk during the day is a bad idea...

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: AdamK47
I predict in the next 15 years there will be people living on air ships.

In 15 or so years we?ll be going to war with lightsabers and phasers.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Feasibility issues aside, why would anyone want one? I'm sure that there are one or two people on the planet with the money and the arrogance to do it for the "cool factor", but that'll never get an entire industry started. Building, maintaining, and living in an air-house would create more problems than it solves.

OP tell me, why exactly would YOU want one, other than the fact that it's a nifty idea. What practical reason is there to do this instead of something else?

Look at my sig. Do you think I'm practical? I'm the most eccentric person you don't know.

 

[imported_Baloo]

I think as has already been suggested, do do so would be insane. Right there with why we don't build condos on top of Mt St. helens.

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Feasibility issues aside, why would anyone want one? I'm sure that there are one or two people on the planet with the money and the arrogance to do it for the "cool factor", but that'll never get an entire industry started. Building, maintaining, and living in an air-house would create more problems than it solves.

OP tell me, why exactly would YOU want one, other than the fact that it's a nifty idea. What practical reason is there to do this instead of something else?

The same reason you'd have a houseboat or a motor home. You can go any place you like and never have to leave the comfort of your own home. Imaging traveling to Africa while sitting in your own living room on your own couch watching your own TV. The more I think about this the more it sounds like a great idea.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324

The same reason you'd have a houseboat or a motor home. You can go any place you like and never have to leave the comfort of your own home. Imaging traveling to Africa while sitting in your own living room on your own couch watching your own TV. The more I think about this the more it sounds like a great idea.

I already do that.

And the wind won't blow me to the ground either. :laugh:

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Feasibility issues aside, why would anyone want one? I'm sure that there are one or two people on the planet with the money and the arrogance to do it for the "cool factor", but that'll never get an entire industry started. Building, maintaining, and living in an air-house would create more problems than it solves.

OP tell me, why exactly would YOU want one, other than the fact that it's a nifty idea. What practical reason is there to do this instead of something else?

The same reason you'd have a houseboat or a motor home. You can go any place you like and never have to leave the comfort of your own home. Imaging traveling to Africa while sitting in your own living room on your own couch watching your own TV. The more I think about this the more it sounds like a great idea.

Once again you run into the fact that it creates more problems than it solves. Of course you could travel to Africa in an air-house, or at least you could hover above it. There's still the problem of actually getting to Africa from your air-house.

With a house-boat you could travel to Africa and actually set foot on the continent with nothing more than a walkway between your vessel and the land. Doing this from an air-house would require either a parachute or some other inconvenient contrivance, and then there's the necessity of getting back.

My point is that if you can do this more conveniently with a house-boat, then trying to do it with an air-house is prohibitively redundant. If you want to have one for "the same reason" as you would have a house-boat or RV, then why have one at all when they can perform the same function with fewer complications?

 

[sdifox]

wait, we have enough problem keeping stupid people from getting into an airplane and now you want them to fly a house?

 

[Aikouka]

I need an air ship so I can blare the Red Wings music from FF4 while flying around.