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Cargo Airships Are Happening
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Crack engineer" means an engineer who is smart and capable. "Cracked engineer" means an engineer who is insane.
It's just how the kids and the terminally online are saying it these days
Not even particularly new. I remember seeing it used talking about Counter-Strike pros in the early 2000s
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure about how they solve customs, but the picture shows an airship dropping cargo directly off at a warehouse (avoiding trucks).
I guarantee that's not going to be a viable option. No nation, especially China or the USA, is going to allow an aircraft free access to land unknown cargo at a random warehouse without going through customs. It's going to have to land at some kind of airfield just like a cargo plane would.
I am not sure what US law on the matter is, but many countries have what are known as "bonded warehouses", which store uncleared goods within the destination country. Are you a customs expert? If so, please comment on whether the US has an equivalent.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if you're aware, but bonded warehouses are customs facilities. The vast majority of goods never pass through a Government customs facility.
In which countries are they legally identical, or even mostly identical, to the customs facilities commonly found in international airports?
I am not the parent, but they did not say bonded warehouses were identical to government customs facilities at airports.
>"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe it's still a customs/border facility. It can just be inland now, away from the very expensive waterfront/costal property
the reason that property is so expensive is because that's where the people are. There's no point in avoiding the biggest cost of air freight - getting goods to consumers who don't live near the limited freight hubs, if you land it in the middle of nowhere and now need to ship by rail or truck AND last mile delivery
There are lots of people inland and away from sea ports. Many hubs of industry (such as Wisconsin which makes many mechanics' tools) could take advantage of this if it were available.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're failing to see the secret that is exposed by the fact that their Chief Engineer comes from hyperloop. They're going to dig tunnels connecting all their destinations and run the airships underground in a vacuum sealed network. No atmospheric drag at all! Bingo!
How can you call yourself an engineer and work on the hyperloop. Literally only takes about 30s of thought to realize it is an impossible idea.
I don't particularly defend feasibility of Hyperloop, but did want to point out that your comment sounded awfully like when people were ridiculing the idea of human flight, landing on the moon etc... Finding engineering solutions to what looked as "impossible" challenges were some of the best feats of humanity so far.
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#217> "But for air freight service, end-to-end delivery takes a week or more, involving multiple parties: in addition to the air carrier and freight forwarder, at both the origin and destination, there is a trucking company, a warehouse, a customs broker, and an airport. Each touchpoint adds cost, delay, and the risk of theft or breakage." How does an airship solve any of those problems? Its still got to go through custo…
My reading is that it doesn't solve it, it just indicates there is a market for non-urgent freight in which airships could compete.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
In which countries are they legally identical, or even mostly identical, to the customs facilities commonly found in international airports?
I am not the parent, but they did not say bonded warehouses were identical to government customs facilities at airports. > "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hence why I also said ‘or even mostly identical’?
If it’s only vaguely similar in fact, then that seems hardly convincing.
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Sure, but why does that only benefit airships and not conventional airplanes?
I don’t expect it will, I’m just surprised whenever my parcel shows it’s been cleared by customs before it has even left the origin country. (And that’s not a timezone bug, it’s explicitly described as a remote authorization, a preauthorization, or something like that.) Customs (partly) in software is not an absurd idea, was my point, I have no opinion on airships other than acknowledging their inherent coolness.
Manifest approvals has been a reality for a while. But that works because, not despite, the bottlenecks.
Countries know goods must flow through certain choke points so they can essentially quality control the manifests.
Remove that and pre-authorised customs will go again.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guarantee that's not going to be a viable option. No nation, especially China or the USA, is going to allow an aircraft free access to land unknown cargo at a random warehouse without going through customs. It's going to have to land at some kind of airfield just like a cargo plane would.
I am not sure what US law on the matter is, but many countries have what are known as "bonded warehouses", which store uncleared goods within the destination country. Are you a customs expert? If so, please comment on whether the US has an equivalent.
There's also 'free trade' areas within China that allow transfer without import and export tax and other innovations.