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Comment by Mark

December 28, 2007 @ 5:52 pm

FLYING WHALES?? OH THE HUMANITY!!

Comment by Izabael

December 28, 2007 @ 8:48 pm

I learned a new word today: beluga.

That lounge view reminds me vaguely of Star Trek.

Comment by Casey Jones

December 28, 2007 @ 9:49 pm

At 173 MPG it would take at least 6 days to go around the world not 3.

Comment by kris

December 28, 2007 @ 10:32 pm

Why am I checking my wallet? Are you going to actually tell us how much it is to stay there per night?

Comment by Casey Not Jones

December 28, 2007 @ 10:48 pm

173 MPH, not MPG

Comment by ORAquabat

December 28, 2007 @ 11:28 pm

No no no… it’s …

Oh! The huge manatee!!!

Comment by Kobredia Spring

December 29, 2007 @ 2:04 pm

wtf thats soooo gay

Comment by Will Bills

December 29, 2007 @ 2:06 pm

Kobredia Spring is a faggot… go eat shit and die. that hotel is fuckin awesome. i will end your life kobredia, you buttfucker, even if it’s the last thing i do.

Comment by Will Bills

December 29, 2007 @ 2:07 pm

IM’MA GO FUCK SOME DUDE’S ASSHOLE!!!

Comment by mark

December 29, 2007 @ 3:19 pm

Wow, looks beautiful, i would pay $600 a night to stay in this if it has good entertainment. Really great idea makes me positive towards the future

Comment by Duffman

December 29, 2007 @ 3:53 pm

I for one welcome our beluga whale overlords

Comment by Casey Jones

December 29, 2007 @ 3:59 pm

Opps!

Comment by me

December 29, 2007 @ 6:34 pm

dont spend money on cancer. spend money on flying hotels

Comment by Bill Vincent

December 29, 2007 @ 6:57 pm

“Travel the globe” does not neccesarily mean “circumnavigate the globe.”

Comment by AnsonMage

December 29, 2007 @ 7:18 pm

I don’t believe it.

I flew blimps in the US for years and I just don’t believe it. I don’t believe that those tiny engines go that fast, I don’t believe that the amount of helium is capable of lifting a hotel.

I think this is a 3D model and the other images are photoshopped. Sorry, but after having to deal with 160,000 cubic feet of helium and only having an average lift of an extra 600-800 pounds of lift, that anything short of somewhere near a couple hundred million cubic feet of helium could lift even the hotel portion of the aircraft, let alone the passengers!

HOAX!

Comment by tom

December 29, 2007 @ 7:35 pm

they went through a lot of failed attempts you remember the flying pig hotel? the flying dachshund motel. until they get to the flying koala bear hotel I’m saving my money.

Comment by Shireen

December 29, 2007 @ 7:55 pm

How can I book a room on this thing and where is it? Cheers!

Comment by tommy

December 30, 2007 @ 12:15 am

The really should use hydrogen gas instead of helium.

Comment by Free Tarot Readings

December 30, 2007 @ 1:02 am

This would drop like a rock. Clearly it was not made by an engineer. The ratio of the cabin to the dirigible is way off. This wouldn’t even work with hydrogen. (Se photos of the Hindenberg). Helium is much heavier than hydrogen. The ‘top part’ would need to be 3 or 4 times larger.

Comment by god

December 30, 2007 @ 3:31 am

3 days? 6 days? depends on where you’re travelling idiot. hell you could technically circumnavigate the globe in minutes if you circle a pole….

Comment by Jonald

December 30, 2007 @ 8:38 pm

Oh the Hu-manatee!!!! I should be pun-ished.

Comment by the0ne

December 31, 2007 @ 12:26 am

this is possible,T.V.s were impossible a hundred years ago maybe not now but in the future.

allysource.com

Comment by Kris

December 31, 2007 @ 1:31 pm

“Comment by me

December 29, 2007 @ 6:34 pm

dont spend money on cancer. spend money on flying hotels”

Why on earth would one spend money on cancer, its not exactly something you want

Comment by Todd

January 1, 2008 @ 8:01 pm

Hey Tommy, Did you ever hear about the Hindenburg? It was a zeppelin that used hydrogen and it blew up!

Comment by Vidar Hokstad

January 2, 2008 @ 9:11 am

The Hidenburg didn’t blow up due to the hydrogen. It burned because the exterior paint had a chemical composition close to modern rocket fuel. It was first after the exterior paint had caught fire and caused massive damage that finally pierced the hull that the hydrogen started burning.

Even then, the hydrogen was not what caused people to die - the hydrogen is so light it immediately escaped upwards. According to the investigations into the accident, what killed most of the 1/3 or so of the passengers that died was falling parts of the exterior and cabins, as well as the diesel used for the motors required for steering the ship which obviously also caught fire.

Helium is safer than hydrogen, but in the Hindenburg disaster it wouldn’t have made much difference - the ship still would have burned and crashed, and the passengers still wouldn’t had burning pieces raining down. In a ship with less flammable exterior paint the difference would have been huge, though.

Vidar

Comment by newkiraj

January 2, 2008 @ 3:49 pm

@ me & kris

roflwaffles ahahahah i am literally rolling on the floor laughing at that!!! lol its not exactly something you want

Comment by WalknDude

January 2, 2008 @ 3:49 pm

uh,,,so we dont give a crap about the real belugas,,,lets just build one that flies?

Comment by mackenzie

January 2, 2008 @ 7:04 pm

HOT

Comment by Dobbs

January 4, 2008 @ 10:17 pm

Everyone posting here is totally smart and awesome and should congratulate themselves.

Comment by Kilgore Trout

January 5, 2008 @ 8:32 pm

When regular porno becomes boring, the freaks will come up with sites like erotic elbows and titillating toe jams. Look at ya just look at ya. Why cant they come up with a smaller whale blimp for one person to commute to work with. Probably be much safer bumpin into other big blimps than flying out a windshield

Comment by smrterthanu

January 5, 2008 @ 9:26 pm

the article doesn’t say it can circumnavigate the world in 3 days, it says it can run nonstop for 3 days.

“This beluga could cruise at 173mph which allows it to travel the globe on non-stop 3 day journeys.”

notice the word travel? it does not indicate completion of a trip around the world. only that it can travel at 173mph for 3 days solid.

Comment by Trudy Steger

January 7, 2008 @ 1:16 pm

Vuntz I had a kendy store
Bizniss was so bad
I asked mine vife what to do
and dis is what she said:
Take your self some Kerosene
pour it on de floor
Take a match, give a scratch
No more kendy store! HEY!

Comment by beluga

January 9, 2008 @ 6:53 pm

I cant wait until I can go for a ride in one, and afford it

Comment by ryuame

February 9, 2008 @ 3:05 am

Somewhere, Douglas Adams is laughing his ass off.

Comment by Jack

February 12, 2008 @ 11:07 pm

I was doing research on cruise ships and found your page. This thing is amazing! Anything that our mind can conceive we can achieve with enough persistence. Thanks for the great reading!

Comment by Cheap Hotels

February 19, 2008 @ 12:31 am

Wow, that is pretty cool. Of course, I am still torn between that one and the Ice Hotel in Sweden which is also very cool.

Comment by antakya

February 22, 2008 @ 11:25 am

ı want to say lots of things but ı just say WOOOWWW and ı wanna be in this hotel:D