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| ▲ | kragen 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | No. Possibly Kishore Patil, who was born yesterday in Mumbai, will build a replacement for her on a whim when he is 70, using self-assembling nanobots, or possibly next century the Creative Cold War Re-Enactment Society will cosplay 20th-century steel-mill workers and welders long enough to build a replacement for her in a period-correct fashion, but nothing really resembling Cunard will exist in a future where building a replacement for her is possible. | | |
| ▲ | samatman 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not to toss cold water in the face of your maudlin science-fictional musings (kidding I’m totally doing that), QM2 is the 51st largest passenger ship afloat. They call them “cruise ships” now, because the only reason to float around like that is fun, not business. So they have waterslides and such. Slightly less old-growth hardwood paneling, fewer places where one is allowed to smoke cigars. But no. There are ten Greeks who could build another Queen Mary as a lark, and that’s just counting Greeks. However rich you think the world is? It’s richer than that. Zeppelins, though. Those, I will grant you, have gotten scarce. Oh, the humanity. | | |
| ▲ | dn3500 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Cruise ships and ocean liners are two different kinds of ship. An ocean liner has higher freeboard, higher service speed, longer bow, greater draft, and other features that make it more suitable for crossing oceans. | |
| ▲ | ornateelephant 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Forget the Greeks, have a look at Clive Palmer. Not just dreaming about building a replica Titanic, but also wanted to revive zeppelins commercially. | |
| ▲ | kragen 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Maybe you're right. | |
| ▲ | Animats 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Zeppelins, though. Those, I will grant you, have gotten scarce. Just saw a Zeppelin cruising over Woodside today. It's Sergey Brin's personal project, Pathfinder. It's a true Zeppelin, a rigid airship, not a blimp, and the world's largest air vehicle. [1] First flew in 2025, but, unlike the Airship Ventures craft we used to see giving tours over Silicon Valley, it's not flown often. It's normally parked in Hangar One at Moffet Field. [1] https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/big-helium-airship-spott... | | |
| ▲ | kragen 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thank God for billionaires, but why can't he stop Google from creating dystopia instead? | | |
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