They were very into helium and balloons
Literally just build a bridge, you hyper-individualistic consumer-centric assholes.
I think the idea here is people want to go out and enjoy the day. Not just walk across a bridge. Next time think before you comment. You sound rarted as fuck
rarted? If you’re going to insult someone at least spell check yourself, lmfao.
Nah, you just dont know the old meme
Oh no, the Groypers are here.
We got much better things though.
Requires disposable income :(
Balloons and watercycles wouldn’t?
Balloons are surprisingly cheap for a finite gas resource
I do like how it has the sensibilities at the time. Being super dangerous to anyone who uses it.
Now I’m wondering why we don’t attach giant balloons to ships to reduce water resistance by cutting down how much of the ship needs to be underwater. Perhaps it’s because you would need more size for the balloon, and maybe the air resistance and water resistance needs to even out due to physical laws that I’m too lazy to think about?
Sounds like you’re vaguely describing a ground effect vehicle, basically a plane which coasts along the water. They’re more efficient than actually flying due to exploiting the ground effect on the lift surfaces, but ultimately it’s closer to a plane than a boat
attach giant balloons to ships
Any amount of water contact introduces a fair amount of drag. There may be an ideal point somewhere in the middle, but I think if you take this to it’s natural conclusion you get a zeppelin.
I did a little bit of math and I think that to lift the payload capacity (including fuel and crew) of a modern day Panama canal ship you would need about a tenth of the peak U.S. helium reserve (a cube about half a kilometer long on each edge, about 1.3x longer than the long dimension of the ship)
I don’t think you’d get the best fuel efficiency going upwind lol
Anything smaller would come with proportionally less downsides and at least proportionally less benefits. I doubt it could ever be a net positive in any useful metric.
Hydrogen for sure. Partial lift for a boat has a lot of applications. Much more cargo than an airship, with no complications in flying empty. A fairly flat triangular “balloon” can be used as a solar platform, a sail, and be put in neutral wind mode down to the deck.
The boat already floats. What is the point of making it lighter? Boats are handy for transporting extreme weights because water weighs more than air.
If it should fly then get a Zepplin
I’m glad we got ubiquitous smartphones instead of only rich people having flying cars.
Still, I’m promoting way, way more punk in our cyberpunk.
The rich do have flying cars. They just call them private jets. The rich own mansions (huge houses) all over the world, private islands, mega yachts that contain smaller yachts, their own submarines, and now they even have their own rocket ships
I feel ripped off yet again!
Fucking horse in the background 💀
No, it’s just a water-walking horse.
A Balloon Supported Water Walking Horse…BSWWH for short. Pronounced bsh!
The two Jesuses in the background don’t have balloons!
They’re on a carriage that’s like pontooned at the bottom, being pulled by the horse and driver who each have their own balloons.
edit oh wait d’you mean the ones in the back right my bad dk about them
Back right?
I see two in the back left and two more in the back middle without balloons. The two in the back right are the carriage passengers.
“Deutscher Kakao” 🤡
“German cocoa”
ah so german cacao is the red bull of the 1900s, it gives you wings.
Funny that you say that, they actually sold “Scho-Ka-Kola” (Cho-Ca-Cola) from 1935, which was chocolate with coffein.
Not to be confused with “Panzerschokolade” (tank chocolate), distributed in the 1940s, which was chocolate with meth.
There wasn’t any chocolate just meth.
It was an euphemism.
Not sure how they are walking and not just splashing in place.
If we had spent the time working on the real problems, this would have already been solved.
And you don’t have an issue with the carriage, with three people on it, where the only balloon is on the horse?
Whoever made this was an artist and sucked at physics
The carriage could be on a barge and is just being pulled by the horse. How is the horse getting traction? And why is that man using a cane on water! The small balloons could just be artistic license for the drawing.
I’d be ok with splashing. I want this!
Edit: Perhaps the shoes have keels or fins at the bottom and they use a skating-like motion to move around.
Somehow that weird paddle cycle is bouyant without a balloon.
It’s made of polystyrene!
Or what an AI in the 2020s thought people in the 1900s would think life would be like in the year 2000
This one isn’t AI, I remember seeing this image on the internet 10 years ago.
in that case people in the 1900s were very good at predicting what AI images would look like
Except it doesn’t even look like an AI image.
Debatable. There’s a lot of things in this image that just don’t make sense (ignoring the impossible physics). For example the steering wheel of the water unicycle is connected to nothing. There’s no pedals. The kid behind it is so close it would get clipped by the wheel. Some people are wearing special shoes, some don’t. The balloon shapes and sizes are very inconsistent. Some people in the background don’t have a balloon… Whoever drew this wouldn’t pass art school.
You’re not entirely wrong, but people not knowing how to draw basic things that we all know about is documented.
Gianluca Vimini rendered a whole bunch of people’s attempts at drawing a bike.
EDIT: Wikimedia says OP’s picture was from 1899-1900 and it was uploaded in 2011.
I doubt AI can replicate that German calligraphy
could’ve been added afterwards
You can be wrong about things, you know. It’s okay.
did I say I’m right?
That does tend to be implied when you make a claim
Forget the balloons. I want that water treadmill unicycle!
When you have the chance to ride a water horse? Forget it.
I’m pretty sure they actually exist
I’ve seen bicycle paddle boats; where can I find a unicycle paddle boat?
millicycle
I love that the balloons are far too small. Like they didn’t understand the elements and buoyancy well enough to know the balloons have to be much larger. Not like we have negative mass particles.
I want to see how that cane works.
Superheated hydrogen in a monomolecular unbreakable balloon.
The theoretical best lift from a balloon that size is about 1 kg I would estimate
C-. You didn’t show your work.
Well, air weighs a little bit more than 1 kilogram per cubic meter, and those balloons look a little bit smaller than a cubic meter
What about hydrogen plasma as hot as the surface of the sun, contained in a weightless force field? The 'balloon is simply a decorative wrapper? Remember, it’s the future year 2025!
Unless there’s force coming from somewhere other than buoyancy, you can’t get better than than 1.29 kg per cubic meter of lift in air at stp.
Curses! Foiled again!
What measure of scientic accuracy do you expect from a chocolate wrapper?
I did not know this was on a candy wrapper…
That does make it better.
On the top left it says “Hildebrands German chocolate” and on one of the balloons it says “German cocoa”.
I’m pretty sure scientists back then could have told you that these balloons are too small. The person(s) who drew that picture most likely wasn’t a scientist, which is why it looks how it looks.
Maybe they thought we’d have discovered/created new elements by now that could do this.
Well, if we used a pure vacuum, you’d only get about 17% more efficiency than just using helium I think
Half hydrogen! Or the rare molecule, puffy air.
I like the fact that a horse and boat thing has the same size balloon as a person.
Obviously they were assuming balloons were filled with supervacuum. We have had 100 years and not invented even that.
Truly we have failed our ancestors.
Well, I guess they figured it’d take another 100 years to calculate that correctly, so they just winged it for the picture.
They just thought they’d do everything they did back then, but on water? And with mini blimps?
They just thought they’d do everything they did back then, but with balloons. They could already walk on water back then.
Fuck being able to buy a house or afford rent, people need mini blimps! (Right, it’s not just me?)
