Matt think back to your visit to your home manufacturing facility. They kept showing you your home in three dimensions on the screen and how they can twist it and turn it and change things and modify it. This would be a perfect use for the goggles not only for the designer but by the builders and the Craftsman the tradesmen to come in afterwards. Just like your comment about the designer having exact dimensions and being able to make changes and show things off that would be wonderful
I remember when I learned about how helium is an essentially unrenewable resource, because once it escapes its container, it floats to the top of the atmosphere & it's lost forever. And there's basically no way to make more, because it's a noble gas that's non-reactive with anything, and I had pretty much the the same reaction. Why are we using this for stupid party balloons and making squeaky voices lol? That's why it's also one of the most valuable resources in space games like Mass Effect, where you have to mine for helium-3.
Thanks. I now have this crazy mental image of Lance Armstrong cycling, Simone Biles doing gymnastics, Wile E Coyote running with 85 legs, and the little robot thing Chewbacca growled at all running from the Hindenburg collapsing....
I haven't laughed while listening to a podcast in a long time. Listening to the story of someone running on all fours from the Hindenburg, and hearing you two laugh about it, was SO funny to me!
The major issue about all these really great potential usecases is Apple has made some choices in their frameworks/APIs that prettymuch prevent a lot of these handholding augmented DIY things from being done. That may change in the future, but a lot of why they made these choices are due to privacy.
Did the researcher add in "the song remains the same" too? I wondered if there were even more Led Zepp references! Interesting video.. thanks. Ken, England
Follow with me... Your podcasts, in the virtual space, where I log in, sit down, and am in a virtual room with the two of you behind your individual desks. Expand this to meetings and lectures... engineers have been using 3d modeling for years, but imagine having a crew from all over the planet able to explore a virtual model to scale and test in real time. And are we sure the Hindenberg didn't look at Jersy and light itself on fire?
I think the big issue is not hydrogen flamabiliity which I could see made relatively safe with smart venting and fire retardant compartments but weather. A slow moving airship with a large surface area is likely to be significantly impacted by weather and when you look at the loss of military airships in the early 20th century like the USS Shenandoah, USS Akron and the British R101 it was weather that brought them down. It is just hard to see how a technology that will have a worse uptime than shipping or general aviation will ever be a significant player.
How about those blimps. You're absolutely right that's a very limited resource which is their primary ingredient to make bumps work. Perhaps aerogel. Now practically speaking about safety, we know how to make cars safe. But yet, every year thousands of cars are recalled for safety defects of design or assembly. Look at all the airplanes with things falling off or out right crashing. Now the big one. Weather! The majority of air ship losses are from fighting the weather. These ships have so much unalterable sail and so little power to fight, overcome and win against unfavorable wind speed, direction, or gusting. Hindenburg, the US Navy and Goodyear all lost a lot of air ships and primarily due to unfavorable weather.
Lithium video framing idea. What if instead of the are we running out concept, what about the potential future possibilities when they figure out how to mine it. Will battery prices plunge? What other possibilities open up when the world's lithium supply goes way up?
There was a relatively recent episode of NOVA (PBS), something like "Hindenburg - The New Evidence" I think it put me to sleep, as most NOVA episodes do. They take a 30 minute show and stretch it to 60. My thinking is that Materials Science has come a long way and H₂ could be good enough for hauling freight.
