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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1394" data-attributes="member: 1"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/zeppelins-stopped-flying-after-hindenburg-disaster-now-scientists-want-bring-ncna1043911" target="_blank">Zeppelins stopped flying after the Hindenburg disaster. Now scientists want to bring them back. - NBC News</a>The proposed airships would move cargo more efficiently than oceangoing freighters — and produce far less pollution. The age of huge, ocean-crossing zeppelins came to an end in 1937, when the Hindenburg — the largest craft of its type ever built — <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hindenburg" target="_blank">erupted in flames</a> while landing in New Jersey. Dozens died.Now, more than 80 years later, the giant airships may be poised for a comeback — not for passenger service, but as an environmentally friendly means of delivering goods around the globe.As proposed in a recent <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590174519300145?via=ihub" target="_blank">scientific paper</a>, the new airships would be 10 times bigger than the 800-foot Hindenburg — more than five times as long as the Empire State Building is tall — and soar high in the atmosphere. They’d do the work of traditional oceangoing cargo ships but would take less time and generate only a fraction of the pollution.</blockquote>