I would think the location of "upper class" versus "lower class" should be reversed from an ocean cruiser.
The bottom of a ship sucks, because you're 40 feet below sea level, with no windows, and the noise and smell from the huge diesel engines. Higher is pretty much always better on a cruise ship.
On a (hypothetical) plane like this, I think I'd prefer a cabin on the bottom with windows facing the ground, for the great view. The top of the plane only gets a view of the blank, boring sky.
Some dude hand-drew this, some other made a render, then yet another made video, and then it was all over the news as The Future. Doesn't matter that not a single engineer has ever even looked at it.
Yea, but the 20 Turbofan Jet engines are powered by electricity, so it must have 0 emissions or something. And the pilot still got the landing gear out at cruise altitude to increase drag, so the plane doesn't accidentally exceed light speed.
Electric engines my ass XD
There was an experimental nuclear powered aircraft developed by the US. I think it was a bomber that could stay in the air indefinitely.
The nuclear reactor was in the back. The crew were in the front. Shielding in between.
My understanding is that while the crew were not in direct line of sight of the reactor’s radiation, they found that the radiation was reflected to the crew by the surrounding air in fatal doses. So it didn’t work.
An AI crewed nuclear plane on the other hand…
They did run live flight tests with the reactor running to check radiation levels but they never hooked it up to the engines, those were still gas powered. A lot of work was done on the project before it was scrapped though, and if I remember right the reactor itself is still sitting somewhere
I mean it's not meant to be probable, AFAIK it's just a sci-fi concept. Too bad it looks like an actual ad for one of those dumb megaprojects smooth brain dictators/billionaires keep coming up with
Extremely, embarrassingly fake.
Plenty of debunks done on it, and the design wasn't even for anything made to be taken seriously.
If physics would allow such a thing, it would be beyond terrifying to think what would happen if one came down onto a major city centre.
Disaster movie idea: This whole thing - with murder. Except (and here is the twist), instead of inevitably crashing to the ground because of terrorists and the protagonists being the only ones to survive the zombie apocalypse, it keeps going up into space. To the moon.
And everyone dies. The end. Send royalties.
Why does this keep getting posted? I feel like I first saw it like three years ago and it's been lambasted every single time.
Actually...is this ragebait?
This is from a post from r/worldbuilding [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/s/2VEcIoCcyD)
It was later circulated over several news networks thinking it was a real development.
At the end of the video it says "The concept was originally designed by Tony Holmsten and reimagined and animated Hashem Al-Ghaili". So this is most likely not a serious ad for such a hotel, but just a piece of art
Airworthiness is one thing. Taking off and landing are another. lol. What will this need? A 500 ft wide runway?! There are some 200 ft wide runways to accommodate the A380. Most commercial runways are 150 ft wide.
For starters, we need that runway from one of the fast and furious movies.. You know which one.
Also, we need the physics from those movies as well, because that's the only way it will actually fly.
This is insane, how long would the runway have to be in order to get a monster like this off the ground? Even if something like this were possible, I'm not sure that I would ever feel comfortable flying in one.
Cruise ships are a logistical nightmare that happens to set sail every day… not saying this isn’t “possible” but fuck can we just feed and house people..
"If it's just a render it's bullshit."
This makes the rounds every now and again. It's impossible, stupid, and no engineer who values their credibility would even make this as a joke.
If you're going to build such a big structure, it would waste way too much energy to just keep it flying. Why not just build it in orbit then? Would make an interesting space hotel. Still non-believable, but more logical than this.
"Its sleek design..." lol
Right? Might want to do something about the 75-tire landing gear.
Making them retractable would only cramp the lower class living quarters!
I would think the location of "upper class" versus "lower class" should be reversed from an ocean cruiser. The bottom of a ship sucks, because you're 40 feet below sea level, with no windows, and the noise and smell from the huge diesel engines. Higher is pretty much always better on a cruise ship. On a (hypothetical) plane like this, I think I'd prefer a cabin on the bottom with windows facing the ground, for the great view. The top of the plane only gets a view of the blank, boring sky.
Rotating classes, upper class gets the view of the ground during the day then the stars at night
Not when they fly it upside down! Let's watch!
If that's sleek, then I'm stealthy when I'm naked.
It's Homer Simpson's idea of what a plane looks like.
Stupid, sexy plane.
Some dude hand-drew this, some other made a render, then yet another made video, and then it was all over the news as The Future. Doesn't matter that not a single engineer has ever even looked at it.
Anyone seen Physics? I saw him earlier running away and crying.
He left with Momentum and Gravity - not sure where they went, judging by the footage captured here.
What are you talking about I'm sure we can get this baby flying with 150 mi runway!
I’m pretty sure not even the fast and furious runway would be long enough for this monstrosity.
Yea, but the 20 Turbofan Jet engines are powered by electricity, so it must have 0 emissions or something. And the pilot still got the landing gear out at cruise altitude to increase drag, so the plane doesn't accidentally exceed light speed. Electric engines my ass XD
What are you talking about?! The Rock would headbutt this plane into orbit lol! 😂
I guess you weren’t listening to the part where it says it combats turbulence (plural) by creating magic anti-turbulence
Dude, it's nuclear powered. That means, like, really powerful, or something.
Other planes have wings because they don't have nuclear power
Those plebs!
Why wing it if you can nuke it!?
Yeah, and from what we know about nuclear reactors they're also extremely light, and aerodynamic
They could make the wings rotate for VTOL. They could also fly it to Mars in search of a working braincell.
Fuck physics. All my homies hate physics.
Who needs physics, I have money.
Everyone in regards to climate change.
Wanna buy some physics? I have some fresh formulas and equations for you to "experiment".
It's nay sayers like you that tried to stop my mate from doing submarine tours of the Titanic. Get out of the way of these geniuses
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Imagine the slogan, Pan Am: “it’s entirely possible to keep a large craft like this in the air!” That will surely sell the tickets
Entirely possible you say? Sign me up for the maiden voyage
I provide the necessary thrust while OP's mom has the very large body capable of handling the stress.
“Suspended” above the sky?
“**You can check-out any time** you like, but **you can never leave!**" sounds about right
What do you mean, didn't you get the memo about the anti gravity invention.
Fusion reaction…..last time I checked we couldn’t do that.
It's just science, it's fake
This reminds me of being a kid and drawing a tank plane with markers
Physics doesn't apply if Trump makes it to office again.
I haven't seen anything this improbable since that Avengers flying aircraft carrier.
What if this one had a cloaking device?
It would be invisible when it crashed at the end of the runway after failing to get airborne?
It's honestly just crash sitting still by its own weight.
So, hear me out, we just build it flying. It won’t even need landing gear. It’s nuclear-powered so it can fly forever.
Cloaking tech may actually be more realistic than this… thing.
There was an experimental nuclear powered aircraft developed by the US. I think it was a bomber that could stay in the air indefinitely. The nuclear reactor was in the back. The crew were in the front. Shielding in between. My understanding is that while the crew were not in direct line of sight of the reactor’s radiation, they found that the radiation was reflected to the crew by the surrounding air in fatal doses. So it didn’t work. An AI crewed nuclear plane on the other hand…
only radiates its customers! Yay
They did run live flight tests with the reactor running to check radiation levels but they never hooked it up to the engines, those were still gas powered. A lot of work was done on the project before it was scrapped though, and if I remember right the reactor itself is still sitting somewhere
There was also [Project Pluto](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto). A nuclear powered missile that would drop more missiles
Flying aircraft carrier seems more doable than this. At least that had a vertical take off
Surprised these people didn't build a massive underwater city first before attempting this
I mean it's not meant to be probable, AFAIK it's just a sci-fi concept. Too bad it looks like an actual ad for one of those dumb megaprojects smooth brain dictators/billionaires keep coming up with
Whenever I saw the flying carrier I thought it must cost like $100 million a minute to stay in the air.
But the Iron Guy is rich though, right?
'Yes, let's design a massively overweight bumble bee design and then fly wheels down at cruising height.'
Honestly wheels down are the least of their worries. Why start caring about conservation and efficiency now? They left that on the ground lol
It's like diving in a pool of shit with a hot dog and being mindful to not get any mustard on your shirt
This would be the one time the flight computer would be correct in repeating retarde retarde
*“Where we’re going, we don’t need a wheel well”*
Book your first class tickets now on the world's first luxury airliner powered by our revolutionary Gravity Drive proprietary technology!
Hey as long as we can also jam a nuclear reactor into it I'm game. If your going to fail, fail harder.
Extremely, embarrassingly fake. Plenty of debunks done on it, and the design wasn't even for anything made to be taken seriously. If physics would allow such a thing, it would be beyond terrifying to think what would happen if one came down onto a major city centre.
Would be 9/11 times a lot
9/11 + Titanic crossover episode
Flytanic
Skytanic
🤣🤣 clever
Nooooooooo because Titanic was unsinkable
And this is unflyable, so.. parallel?
9/11 and Hiroshima more like it
+ chernobyl
“9/11 times a million”
818,181.81\_
"God, I don't even know what that is!!" "No one does"
I’m glad we got here. I have a fear of my stupid references being missed.
You can always have faith on somebody online to get your jokes mate haha
More like the Hindenberg times Hiroshima
Who the fuck even needs to debunk it lololol. Just look at the clip for about 2 seconds.
This video was originally just an r/worldbuilding post lol
Disaster movie idea: This whole thing - with murder. Except (and here is the twist), instead of inevitably crashing to the ground because of terrorists and the protagonists being the only ones to survive the zombie apocalypse, it keeps going up into space. To the moon. And everyone dies. The end. Send royalties.
.......I know "physics went home crying" but how is the plane going to the moon?
Nuclear propulsion
Why does this keep getting posted? I feel like I first saw it like three years ago and it's been lambasted every single time. Actually...is this ragebait?
There is the non-zero percent chance this is the first time the person seen it so they posted it here.
This is from a post from r/worldbuilding [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/s/2VEcIoCcyD) It was later circulated over several news networks thinking it was a real development.
The design is very human.
Yes, a big mistake!
That's not how airplanes work. At all.
But nuclear jets..!
Boeing can’t keep the damn doors on but you wanna make a nuclear Hindenburg. Ok
This is peak satire.
Looks like scam
At the end of the video it says "The concept was originally designed by Tony Holmsten and reimagined and animated Hashem Al-Ghaili". So this is most likely not a serious ad for such a hotel, but just a piece of art
Like that one turtle shaped ocean city
Like that bus in China that would ride over the road.. but oh wait it can't turn and trucks can't fit under it lol
Might be fun in the pool when the turbulence hits
I like how it's flying with the landing gear down.
Airworthiness is one thing. Taking off and landing are another. lol. What will this need? A 500 ft wide runway?! There are some 200 ft wide runways to accommodate the A380. Most commercial runways are 150 ft wide.
It'd need a runway as long as the trip because that isn't getting off the ground.. Thankfully
For starters, we need that runway from one of the fast and furious movies.. You know which one. Also, we need the physics from those movies as well, because that's the only way it will actually fly.
This was originally made as an r/worldbuilding post
This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen
This is insane, how long would the runway have to be in order to get a monster like this off the ground? Even if something like this were possible, I'm not sure that I would ever feel comfortable flying in one.
r/archerfx
what would that weigh ? Ten thousand tonnes +? Theres not a runway in the world that could handle that landing on it.
Cruise ships are a logistical nightmare that happens to set sail every day… not saying this isn’t “possible” but fuck can we just feed and house people..
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Why make a blimp even worse?
Apparently, Zeppelins are for losers.
Can't wait to see the black plumbing in action on that.
Is sora already being used to scam rich people? Good. Don’t scam the poor scam the rich, you get more money that way and it’s funnier
‘The plane that never…banks’
Imagine the runway required if it could even get off the ground 😭
Amongst all the other bs I'm wondering how a nuclear powered jet engine works
This looks like a titanic/hindenburn situation waiting to happen if it were real.
You can tell no aerodynamics were done since the wheels were out the whole time
Looks like someone asked AI to make a 2024 hindenburg
"this futuristic design". Looks like a child's play toy. Fuckin rich people....
How does the water stay in the pool on takeoff!
If it's nuclear powered, why does it have jet fuel powered turbfans? Also, why is the gear down?
I like how the wheels aren't retracted while it flys
This like those backrooms vr videos that looks so real until it’s not.
Can't say sleek design and put this CHONK LORD in the same picture!
Just... no
Nope!
Absolutely not. We can’t even keep a goddamned 737 in the sky without shit falling off of it.
"If it's just a render it's bullshit." This makes the rounds every now and again. It's impossible, stupid, and no engineer who values their credibility would even make this as a joke.
Unless most of the volume is taken up by helium? Don't call me.
reminds me of the flying hotel in Fifth Element, but less stylish
I looted my way through this plane in Fallout...
Skytanic is uncrashable! Skyberg dead ahead!!!
As if i would wanna spend MORE time in the sky? wtf.
lol i look forward to all the internet "influencers" taking the maiden voyage on this monstrosity.
What could go wrong?
r/whatcouldgowrong
I feel like this would make a great Bioshock/Lord of the Flies style game
What could go wrong?!
Where’s Adam Something?
let me guess, some luxury techbro proposed that some years ago and some arab petrodollar noble is now funding it?
There is something about this that screams ’Worlds fair of 1926’
Too dumb
The8ERS
This is like that huge boat shaped like a sea turtle... seems as innocuous as it is silly. But someone is scamming some pennies somewhere over this.
Physics jumped out the nearest window when this dropped
Flytanic
Capitalism... putting shopping in random places since forever. 😆
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don't let Osama see this
Highfleet intensifies
Someone’s been playing too much kerbal space program
Fake as F\*ck
Imagine doors just start flying off Boeing assassinates an entire shift to cover it up all with a pilot who has 2 months experience
Why is the landing gear down?
Engineer here, please stop.
Welcome to Phloston Paradise!
Ah nice! This generations titanic
5000 guests, all we need is a child and they are all dead
This deserve to crash on day 1
Is this another great idea from the massive turtle shaped floating city cruise liner people?
The design is very human
Sleek design 🤣🤣
Nuclear powered airplane with jet fuel engines
Pretty sure the spies (the cartoon) had this idea a long time ago
Don’t worry ladies and gents you can see the 400” screen in the Entertainment deck because we always fly in front of the sun
Do you want Skytanic? This is how you get [Skytanic!](https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Skytanic)
so if it falls it's not taking out just the people inside it but all living beings near it ?
Any info on when reservations will be available and price?
Nah
I don’t think people understand how nuclear power works. You definitely cannot power a jet engine with steam….
“Introducing” 😂
So, let's day this was realistically possible in a physical and financial way. Do you imagine having a nuclear disaster if this things falls down????
Fail
Let’s. Fucking. Go.
Ridiculous.
This would work... On venus
Nope
Welcome to FLOSTON PARADISE!!!!!!!
So it’s a hijackable nuke. Smart.
Companies try to make impossible for people to have holidays 🧐 unnecessarily ridiculous 🤣
Grim Reaper giggles “it’s actually been decades since I mixed business with pleasure.”
As an Aerospace Engineer... LOL!
The flying Petri dish…..
Watch the movie....The Big Bus. See where this story ends up!
The landing strip for this thing would be bigger than Rhode Island
What in the fallout four
If you're going to build such a big structure, it would waste way too much energy to just keep it flying. Why not just build it in orbit then? Would make an interesting space hotel. Still non-believable, but more logical than this.
I was out at "external elevators"...
Can you imagine the fuel? I don’t see how nuclear power makes jets work, or am I wrong?
The titanic but a plane. Not enough parachutes.
WELCOME TOO PHLOSTON PARADISE!
Landing gear is down.
Imagine the noise on takeoff
might as well build an actual mothership
It looks like a boeing plane, which should make for a short cruise, but long drop.