Comments on: Is this the future of American Public Diplomacy? Of Counterinsurgency? http://conflicthealth.com/is-this-the-future-of-american-public-diplomacy-of-counterinsurgency/ Defending Health Against Persecution, Violence, And Armed Conflict Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:29:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Darin http://conflicthealth.com/is-this-the-future-of-american-public-diplomacy-of-counterinsurgency/comment-page-1/#comment-483 Darin Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:42:39 +0000 http://warandhealth.com/is-this-the-future-of-american-public-diplomacy-of-counterinsurgency/#comment-483 Modern airships don't explode just like modern space craft don't explode during launch. Err.. Accidents happen, so it's a mistake to say "modern airships do not explode". The bigger problem, and this is what Adrian said in his comment, is that it would be a sitting duck target for anyone with a slingshot. It might be bad publicity in our minds for someone to shoot one down, but if they can run propaganda better than we can, who says anyone besides us will ever know it's a hospital and not a warship, or the service comes with strings attached. Or if they shoot them all down before a single one lands, then we're really screwed. Personally though, I don't see a need for this. We have medical equipment, we have planes, why not just fly them in? This seems unnecessary. And it almost does have a "Team America" feel to it, in that we drop in, do some health work, and then take off saying, "our work here is done." It seems to me it would a better idea to just build permanent hospitals around the world rather then a fly-by chop-shop operation. First though, I think we need to provide better health care in America before we start to worry about everyone else's cold. Modern airships don’t explode just like modern space craft don’t explode during launch. Err..

Accidents happen, so it’s a mistake to say “modern airships do not explode”.

The bigger problem, and this is what Adrian said in his comment, is that it would be a sitting duck target for anyone with a slingshot. It might be bad publicity in our minds for someone to shoot one down, but if they can run propaganda better than we can, who says anyone besides us will ever know it’s a hospital and not a warship, or the service comes with strings attached. Or if they shoot them all down before a single one lands, then we’re really screwed.

Personally though, I don’t see a need for this. We have medical equipment, we have planes, why not just fly them in? This seems unnecessary. And it almost does have a “Team America” feel to it, in that we drop in, do some health work, and then take off saying, “our work here is done.” It seems to me it would a better idea to just build permanent hospitals around the world rather then a fly-by chop-shop operation. First though, I think we need to provide better health care in America before we start to worry about everyone else’s cold.

]]> By: Ceo of Millennium Airship Inc http://conflicthealth.com/is-this-the-future-of-american-public-diplomacy-of-counterinsurgency/comment-page-1/#comment-482 Ceo of Millennium Airship Inc Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:45:10 +0000 http://warandhealth.com/is-this-the-future-of-american-public-diplomacy-of-counterinsurgency/#comment-482 Hurry for you Chris!! You found the misspell. Now we know you at least "looked" at our website. Chuckling.. We have been aware of the misspell for some time now and given our obvious "out of the box" mindset here, we find the comments derived by it somewhat amusing. It is not amusing however to see a copyright infringement regarding the use of our renderings in that article, especially altering the side with the "US Navy Hospital Airship" livery. Had you asked permission, you might have been gladly given it. That said, I want to thank you for your insight insofar as it pertains to American Diplomacy. We at Millennium have been advocating such good will endeavors for years. Unfortunately, it has fallen on virtually deaf ears, even with such organizations as the United Nations, the Gates Foundation, etc. We believe it is because of same conventions that are expressed by Adrian. People think airships are flammable and will explode...Not so..lift in modern airships is derived from Helium. Helium is a totally inert gas that will actually put out a fire if exposed to it. The Hindenberg and her sister ship the Graf Zeppelin were using Hydrogen gas for lift, why??? Because our government refused to sell Nazi Germany helium for fear that they would use it for purposes other than airship operations. It is worth noting however the the Graf Zeppelin maintained scheduled air service between Germany and Argentina logging hundreds of thousands of miles carrying passengers and freight without incident.. before it was de-commissioned during WWII. Adrian.... FYI...Modern airships do not explode. since the unfortunate Hindenberg incident, that would 62+ years? (and it didn't explode either) not one passenger on an commercial airship has been seriously injured. I challenge you to find any other transportation system that can claim such a safety record. In fact, when the Hindenberg went down there were 85 or so people onboard. Of those, some 37 survived...If they had been in a 500 MPH aluminum tube, (Jetliner)I believe there would have been NO survivers. You do the math. Hurry for you Chris!! You found the misspell. Now we know you at least “looked” at our website. Chuckling.. We have been aware of the misspell for some time now and given our obvious “out of the box” mindset here, we find the comments derived by it somewhat amusing.
It is not amusing however to see a copyright infringement regarding the use of our renderings in that article, especially altering the side with the “US Navy Hospital Airship” livery. Had you asked permission, you might have been gladly given it. That said, I want to thank you for your insight insofar as it pertains to American Diplomacy. We at Millennium have been advocating such good will endeavors for years. Unfortunately, it has fallen on virtually deaf ears, even with such organizations as the United Nations, the Gates Foundation, etc. We believe it is because of same conventions that are expressed by Adrian. People think airships are flammable and will explode…Not so..lift in modern airships is derived from Helium. Helium is a totally inert gas that will actually put out a fire if exposed to it. The Hindenberg and her sister ship the Graf Zeppelin were using Hydrogen gas for lift, why??? Because our government refused to sell Nazi Germany helium for fear that they would use it for purposes other than airship operations. It is worth noting however the the Graf Zeppelin maintained scheduled air service between Germany and Argentina logging hundreds of thousands of miles carrying passengers and freight without incident.. before it was de-commissioned during WWII.

Adrian….
FYI…Modern airships do not explode. since the unfortunate Hindenberg incident, that would 62+ years? (and it didn’t explode either) not one passenger on an commercial airship has been seriously injured. I challenge you to find any other transportation system that can claim such a safety record. In fact, when the Hindenberg went down there were 85 or so people onboard. Of those, some 37 survived…If they had been in a 500 MPH aluminum tube, (Jetliner)I believe there would have been NO survivers. You do the math.

]]> By: Adrian http://conflicthealth.com/is-this-the-future-of-american-public-diplomacy-of-counterinsurgency/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Adrian Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:29:09 +0000 http://warandhealth.com/is-this-the-future-of-american-public-diplomacy-of-counterinsurgency/#comment-481 Seems like if it had a "USA" logo on it, it'd be a giant slow-moving (explodable?) target. It kind of reminds me of something out of Starship Troopers. Seems like if it had a “USA” logo on it, it’d be a giant slow-moving (explodable?) target. It kind of reminds me of something out of Starship Troopers.

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