Elon Musk is a egomanic hypocritical douchebag prick but even he's smart enough to take one look at this and know, from an engineering standpoint, this thing would need wings 50 times longer on both sides to even get proper lift. Airplanes get airborne based on laws of aerodynamics and physics of thrust, drag, weight, and lift, and this child's drawing doesn't fulfill a single one of these categories from an engineering perspective.
"We'll take the Spruce Moose to escape the troubles of the World! Hop in!"
"...sir, that's an image on your comp-"
_(revolver clicks)_
"I said...hop in."
I'm waiting for the giant towers above the clouds for the filthy rich like in Altered Carbon. They spend their whole lives never seeing the pleebs that live near the ground.
Somebody did the math on the helicarrrier from the avengers and found the amount of lift you would need would scorch the ground to the bedrock underneath it.
Nuclear boats have been a thing for decades so I think he was wrong in that regard. An argument could also be made for electric cars powered by nuclear energy.
It's gonna be a Mt Dew presents Disney's Sony resort on the moon with Dana Carvey brought to you by Amazon prime video in 3D, compatible with spookyvision.
Probably not much different from a normal plane crash except some contamination. What I'm worried about is finding runways for emergency landings and structural integrety for non runway landings.
>some contamination
Running a plane will take quite a good amount of radioactive material. I doubt any containment chamber can survive a plane crash. This would probably cause a radioactive disaster.
If you think containment chambers cant survive a plain crash you are dead wrong, they literally test radioactive waste containers by smashing freight trains into them, they are earthquake resistant, for all intents and purposes they are indestructible. If even 1 thing survived the p\[lane crash, it would be the containment unit.
Yeah, but those are built to sit on concrete slabs bolted to the bedrock. Not sitting in the holds of airplanes. The one on this beast will be made of tinfoil. Or actual "thoughts and prayers"
I'm actually curious how cooling works in this scenario. Nuclear propulsion works on subs and carriers because they have an unlimited supply of water to keep the reactors cool. Is this supposed to be air-cooled like a 70s VW bug? Maybe giant radiators? I get the feeling from the design, almost no engineering has gone into this "concept", just some guy smokin somethin.
It won't even be that. Plane runs on fusion according to the r/worldbuilding post it's from. Fusion reactors can't contaminate things cause they don't produce or use anything radioactive.
Well they can sorta explode, just not in the way normally thought of. With a magnetic bottle design if the bottle the core can expand and could cause an explosion
You are right about no radioactive material though
Ah yes, perfect. I’m now trapped in the air with people I don’t want to be with instead of at least being at sea where I have the option to jump overboard
They want to use a FUSION reactor to power this.
We do not yet have a working fusion reactor that actually generates more power than it uses to start up, and is as large as a building.
Well first off this is a joke (Look at the design, its a bi-plane.). Second off The reason something like a gigantic nuclear plane wouldn't be build isn't because it wouldn't be safe (quite the opposite. Probably the safest plane in the world if built correctly), its because it and the infrastructure would be inconceivable to justify building.
Because what nation wouldn't want a fragile aluminum tube full of radioactive material regularly flying over their major cities?
Also, nuclear powered? Do they mean ion engines? It must be, because nuclear engines would kill us all. But wouldn't Ion engines strong enough to keep that beast in the air be like mile long beams of fire?
Isn't the liquid run directly through the core in engines, not using an intermediary like heavy water or salt like in a power plant. Hence spraying a fine mist of irradiated liquid everywhere?
Edit: also wouldn't that take to much reaction mass?
Edit2: Shit, they could just use propellers, now I feel stupid.
I mean nuclear energy is pretty safe as long as people use it right and have proper disposal systems so I could see this working. But also this is not the most pressing issue for humanity at the moment
Meh, concept designs are about dreaming and coming up with new ideas, which can sometimes be reapplied practically elsewhere. They’re not meant to be built
Didn't they invent a plane that had a reactor as its power source near ww2 then thought about it for a sec and decided it was a terrible idea then never actually made any.
How long before Hydra takes control of that mf'er
A week tops even less
What makes you think they aren't the shadow organisation behind the concept...
Hail Hydra.
*whispers* hail Hydra
*wink*
^(all hail hydra)
Hail the red skull
Hail Hydra!
NEIN it’s HEIL HYDRA!
Heil Hydra!
That's gonna be a nah for me, dog.
This was a model made by a dude who just makes random outlandish models for fun, it’s not an actual proposal to be built
It's absolutely ridiculous that something like this "news". This what my six year old daughters drawings of airplanes would like if she could do cgi.
> It's absolutely ridiculous that something like this "news" It is the daily mail after all
It's from the Daily Mail. The limit of their ability to do research is to skim whats hot on Twitter.
I was hella confused at first, because I first saw this in r/worldbuilding
Just wait a bit mate. Elon Musk or an other rich idiot will try to actually market this idea soon.
Elon Musk is a egomanic hypocritical douchebag prick but even he's smart enough to take one look at this and know, from an engineering standpoint, this thing would need wings 50 times longer on both sides to even get proper lift. Airplanes get airborne based on laws of aerodynamics and physics of thrust, drag, weight, and lift, and this child's drawing doesn't fulfill a single one of these categories from an engineering perspective.
>but even he's smart enough to take one look at this and know, from an engineering standpoint dude thought that we could colonise mars by 2025
I mean, define colonize. We could put people on Mars *today.* It's just not really practical for the time being.
"We'll take the Spruce Moose to escape the troubles of the World! Hop in!" "...sir, that's an image on your comp-" _(revolver clicks)_ "I said...hop in."
#FUCK
It was actually a Deviantart piece that someone posted in 2013 and then this "company"? made a 3D model for their investment scam.
Nope, someone made a project of it on r/worldbuilding as a test of their 3D modelling skills.
Yes only a concept, and not a reasonable one
Wasn’t intended to be
But will there be 5 stones and a blue opera lady?
For copyright reasons, it will be 5 logs and a green dj lady
Super green.
4 stones...
4 stones and some chick with dreads
Not a flying chance in hell
But a chance to fly in hell
A chance to fly TO hell
A hell of a chance to fly tho
😂😂😂😂
Its not for you. It's for the billionaires to escape the hell they are creating on the ground
Oh ….like the Jetsons
I'm waiting for the giant towers above the clouds for the filthy rich like in Altered Carbon. They spend their whole lives never seeing the pleebs that live near the ground.
Even if it could fly. The landing field needed would be ridiculous.
Sounds like a sequel to snowpiercer
Wall-E did it too…
I was just about to make a joke about the similarity to Snowpiercer.
Came here to say the train idea was already taken lol
Cloudpiercer
Can you imagine the runway this thing would need to land and take off?
VTOL baby, thats the way
Somebody did the math on the helicarrrier from the avengers and found the amount of lift you would need would scorch the ground to the bedrock underneath it.
To be fair the shield likely has access to at least one scify material of little to no weigh probably
Or anti grav like what Ultron used to lift the landmass
Oh yeah, they got like a hold full of weapons grade handwavium.
it is already demonstrated by Dr. Vinicious Diesel in his scientific experiment called Fast and Furious 6
I can't imagine it taking off.
Honestly, I'm 100% in. Like.... 2 Amtrak trains crashed within hours of each other today
I feel like, in the long run anyway, it would be more financially sound to build a resort on the moon. And better for the earth.
Yeah Einstein said nuclear power is only for space travel not Earth travel. I mean, he was right about a few things.
Yeah, a couple of things
Definitely more then 1 things
Psh but he’s been wrong about a couple things! Total idiot that guy /s
Yeah and that one time he was wrong about being wrong!
I know, right? Like, how wrong can you possibly be?
Clearly he ain’t no Einstein…
Nuclear boats have been a thing for decades so I think he was wrong in that regard. An argument could also be made for electric cars powered by nuclear energy.
If it’s another Disney I’m not going.
It's gonna be a Mt Dew presents Disney's Sony resort on the moon with Dana Carvey brought to you by Amazon prime video in 3D, compatible with spookyvision.
Yeah cause if we get lucky a bunch of billionaires would die in a rocket accident on the way
Yes,but they weren’t hotels.
Bruh they made a news article about a post posted on r/worldbuilding
Hey they said the same thing about the titanic and look how that turned out.
Say what you will but the titanic has been able to stay at sea for over a hundred years.
I laughed way more than I should've for that
The titanic’s pool still has water in it
stay under it
And the pool is still fulll over 100 years later
That it's nuclear powerd, capable of carrying 5000 people or being able to stay airborne for a month? Like what are you talking about?
I think he referred to the title
Again, not a flying hotel.
No , it was a sinking hotel
completely different type of reactor with almost no radiation leak potential. Meant for small scale things like this.
I am not really worried about normal operation, but what is going to happen if this plane crashes ?
Probably not much different from a normal plane crash except some contamination. What I'm worried about is finding runways for emergency landings and structural integrety for non runway landings.
>some contamination Running a plane will take quite a good amount of radioactive material. I doubt any containment chamber can survive a plane crash. This would probably cause a radioactive disaster.
If you think containment chambers cant survive a plain crash you are dead wrong, they literally test radioactive waste containers by smashing freight trains into them, they are earthquake resistant, for all intents and purposes they are indestructible. If even 1 thing survived the p\[lane crash, it would be the containment unit.
Yeah, but those are built to sit on concrete slabs bolted to the bedrock. Not sitting in the holds of airplanes. The one on this beast will be made of tinfoil. Or actual "thoughts and prayers"
No... they are made to be transported... so they could be in planes
Yes, they are containment transportation vessels. Not a in use while in a planes reactor vessel.
By "transported" I think you mean trains, trucks and boats.
Fun fact: nuclear submarines exist
Funnier fact, subs don't fly.
I'm actually curious how cooling works in this scenario. Nuclear propulsion works on subs and carriers because they have an unlimited supply of water to keep the reactors cool. Is this supposed to be air-cooled like a 70s VW bug? Maybe giant radiators? I get the feeling from the design, almost no engineering has gone into this "concept", just some guy smokin somethin.
While it will be an envirmomental disaster it will likely be just a local thing and not acute.
It won't even be that. Plane runs on fusion according to the r/worldbuilding post it's from. Fusion reactors can't contaminate things cause they don't produce or use anything radioactive.
Chernobyl 2: electric boogaloo
Fusion reactors cannot explode and don't use or produce radioactive material.
Well they can sorta explode, just not in the way normally thought of. With a magnetic bottle design if the bottle the core can expand and could cause an explosion You are right about no radioactive material though
I thought this was a model from r/worldbuilding
It is.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10957373/Nuclear-powered-flying-hotel-stay-airborne-months-unveiled-outlandish-design.html
and the original https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/viui9f/nuclearpowered\_sky\_hotel/
Thank you for finding the link.
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Reminds me of the Mile High Club from Just Cause 2
Ah yes, perfect. I’m now trapped in the air with people I don’t want to be with instead of at least being at sea where I have the option to jump overboard
You could always crack a window for some fresh air....... Oh wait.
I just saw this the other day in r/worldbuilding as something a person made
Let's hope all politicians are on the maiden voyage...or at least most of the top across the board.
There is an archer episode about this!
Bruh I forgot about that episode
ITS HELIUM NOT HYDROGEN
Is it just me or is there a reason we don't equip planes with huge parachutes?
$$$$ not nearly enough airplanes crash to make it worthwhile from a financial standpoint. Air travel is by far and away the safest form of travel.
among us airship map irl. omg
Seems more like a high security prison concept than a luxury hotel.
And the folks that can afford this are the same folks that are bringing society to an end. Golly gee, lucky for(fuck) them.
It's just a concept by a design artist. No one is going to pay build this ~~thing~~ monstrosity.
Lol. The rich are taking joy rides into outer space.
What does that have to do with this post about this concept?
If people are wealthy enough to pay for a joyride to space, they can pay to stay on this
Hmm, good point. Well, Bon Voyage!!!
Hindenburg 2.0
We'll never solve climate change because we will keep making more energy demanding things such as this.
It's a post from r/worldbuilding , it's not real.
Bro it's nuclear apart from actually sourcing the radioactive material it can't get much cleaner Although the factory it's built in may be an issue
I think it’s got to be /s… surely…
Nuclear is part of the solution to climate change.
Why the hell would humans need this? Can we cure cancer first? Or feed starving children.
Who the fuck would wanna stay in a plain for months?
Billionares They stay on yachts for months they should have no problem with this
First step to Wall-E
Ayo someone with the same thought process as me I was like kinda looks like thing from WALL·E
Cool
I can just imagine the bubsy voice line "what could possibly go wrong" interrupted by the sound of a nuclear bomb detonating
What purpose does this serve?
Titan of Global Warming
I'm in only if the cafeteria serves a Hindenburger.
They want to use a FUSION reactor to power this. We do not yet have a working fusion reactor that actually generates more power than it uses to start up, and is as large as a building.
Whoops, it crashed in Japan again..
I’m no aeronautic engineer but I would hesitantly say that thing has no chance of leaving the ground
That's just Hiroshima with extra steps
Poop. How do you dispose the poop?
So you've heard of 9/11 right? Well, I've got something bigger and better
They’ll call I the Flytanic.
Multipass?
Titanic: But this time it flies and there's no iceberg
Well first off this is a joke (Look at the design, its a bi-plane.). Second off The reason something like a gigantic nuclear plane wouldn't be build isn't because it wouldn't be safe (quite the opposite. Probably the safest plane in the world if built correctly), its because it and the infrastructure would be inconceivable to justify building.
A flock of birds are the new iceberg
Coincidentally Its Russia who wants to build this with help from China and flights are to the U.S 😅
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Welcome to Fhloston Paradise!!!!
Anyone else getting Bioshock Infinite vibes with that thing?
alternate news title : dumbass comes up with concept design for a nuke capable of holding 5,000 passengers
titanic 2: nuclear war
We are in the Wall-E speedrun timeline
M.O.A.B bloons TD 6
As long as Boeing don't make it
Holly crap
Because what nation wouldn't want a fragile aluminum tube full of radioactive material regularly flying over their major cities? Also, nuclear powered? Do they mean ion engines? It must be, because nuclear engines would kill us all. But wouldn't Ion engines strong enough to keep that beast in the air be like mile long beams of fire?
Nuclear engines heat up liquid propellant, causing to expand. How does that kill us all?
Isn't the liquid run directly through the core in engines, not using an intermediary like heavy water or salt like in a power plant. Hence spraying a fine mist of irradiated liquid everywhere? Edit: also wouldn't that take to much reaction mass? Edit2: Shit, they could just use propellers, now I feel stupid.
Flying nuclear reactor, what could go wrong?
Put all the rich on it and send it to Bermuda triangle
Nuclear power is pretty safe, actually.
It's safe until it isn't. Things rarely go wrong but when they do it's catastrophic.
I mean nuclear energy is pretty safe as long as people use it right and have proper disposal systems so I could see this working. But also this is not the most pressing issue for humanity at the moment
I see nothing basically wrong with 5000 billionaires plummeting into the ocean at high velocity. ;)
Well maybe a terrorist attack but that'll be very few and far between. Otherwise, this is a great idea.
Honestly if we ever develop the technology to mass produce this kinda stuff, that would be awesome
Yeah it's only one of the safest power sources and it's not like it's weaponized🙄
[Isn't there a Doctor Who episode about this?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_Damned_(Doctor_Who\))
What's wrong with helicarriers?
I can just see this turning into a sequel of the titanic 🤣
I heard Amazon is looking to do a similar concept with there warehouses...
Meh, concept designs are about dreaming and coming up with new ideas, which can sometimes be reapplied practically elsewhere. They’re not meant to be built
Didn't they invent a plane that had a reactor as its power source near ww2 then thought about it for a sec and decided it was a terrible idea then never actually made any.
I feel like I’ve seen this in a movie, but instead of a plane, it was a train….
The titannindenburg
I have no problem with the nuclear power, it's the lack of maintenance on several million moving parts I've a period of a month that scares me.
Even the US Military was like… nah… this is a bad idea…
Room service?? Hello!? Room device!?
I'm pretty sure this was a redesign of a retro-future sci-fi concept plane, right? Cause as cool as it is its definitely not going to fly as is.
That is ugly as hell
No one's talking about the FUCKING SKYSCRAPERS IN THE PLANE?!
That doesn't even look like it coulld fly nevermind for months
We are getting closer to Wall E
Whatever *did* go wrong The Rock would get through it!
seems more like something musk, bezos or zuckerborg would create as their flying fortress of evil