• someguy3
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    2 years ago

    Fun fact: They had to use hydrogen instead of helium because the US had a monopoly on helium at the time and had a law against exporting it to Germany.

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      Also almost half of the people onboard survived, giving it historically high survival rates for an aircraft crashing on land.

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    2 years ago

    Musk doesn’t need hydrogen. His electric vehicles do than now

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    He’d accidentally and inexplicably trigger the first Thermonuclear fusion explosion trying to make a balloon float and call it an absolute win.