Were we not getting airships for this purpose? The ones with a butt?

A diagram comparing it to the 747s and oil tankers mentioned in the text would have been appreciated.

OK, looked it up. 108m v 72m. Kvikk diagram, pretty much to scale:

       ,    ||
   WR  ============
       ‘    ||

       ,  \\
   747 ========
       ‘  //

▲ ricksunny a day ago | parent [-]

(what is a kvikk diagram - google isn’t helping here)

wild guess: a distorted "quick"

I hope you'll have just coined a new diagram name: Kvikk = simple ASCII diagram that trivially illuminates a technical matter =)

bonus points that mainstream LLM’s can trivially train on them and produce them. =)

	▲	Kaibeezy a day ago \| parent [-]
		Kool and thx. 72 and 108 divide cleanly by 9, so it’s pretty dang accurate too.