At 10:21 PM Tuesday 5/8/2007, Max Battcher wrote: >jon louis mann wrote:
Actually, I'm to blame for that . . . > > Catapults? > >Luxury Zeppelins. I think it's high time we had nice luxury zeppelin >travel. Floating 5-star bars in the sky with ample leg room and good >views. No airports, no TSA, no rush, "under the radar" for the most >part... just debarking from private fields and decorated mooring >towers, hopefully near nice city entertainment districts or near good >mass transit to such... Who wouldn't enjoy the retro-futuristic cruise >ships of the sky? > >There's no reason we couldn't bring back a sense of luxury to mass >transit. There's no reason we couldn't bring back a sense of personal >ownership and investment to mass transit. (You can't run a passenger >Zeppelin without a personal name like The Heart of Helium and a well >uniformed Captain that would die before another man piloted her...) > >We might not ever see luxury rail travel again in this country, but if >someone is willing to give me a few million dollars I'd be happy to >start building a fleet of my airships... > >Pipe Dream? Perhaps. But I'd rather take a leisurely zeppelin ride >with a micro-brew or a bourbon on a rocks and chatting with some classy >noir dame than ride the modern sardine can that is an airplane... >Sometimes the future isn't as good as it used to be. > >-- >--Max Battcher-- So what about all of the packages and people that (in the words of the commercial) "absolutely, positively, have to be there by 9 AM"? -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
