>Either way, floating around under a big bag full of hydrogen sounds like a
>bad idea. ;>)
>
>Mark
>87 Wolfsburg Weekender "Monty"
>
>On Mon, 7 May 2007 22:42:04 -0700, Aristotle Sagan
><killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>>John...
>>We are talking 1937 here. Airline safety was no where near the 9sigma it
>>flys under today.
>>
>>A lot of people died to get those numbers up.
>>
>>tim in san jose
>>
>>On 5/7/07, John Reddick <SVYOLO@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  1,000,000 miles before an accident is nothing to brag about. Neither is 1
>>>  crash out of 650 flights.  Any commercial aircraft would be permanently
>  >> grounded if it reached 1/10,000 of either mishap rate.

Helium all the way, man. Of course a zeppelin would need more
gas-volume, as helium is less buoyant than hydrogen. Harder to get &
more expensive too.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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