December 21st, 2012 The Age of Airships?

So the world did not end yesterday. I imagine, like the rest of you, I was not surprised that nothing happened. However, I should state that I did want to believe that something would happen; Jesus comes down and saves us all, Man-Eating Reptilians from planet X invade or some such nonsense. As such, I was perhaps mildly disappoint that seemingly nothing happened, but again, not surprised.

I guess, I think it would be cooler to live in a world with dragons, and epic adventures like in the Lord of the Rings, then it is to live in the world we currently live in, which is filled with a lot of pain and suffering, and not a whole lot of fun for the underclasses.

So it was just perfect this morning to wake up and find, that for me at lest, the Mayan prophecy came true in a very personal way, but in a way that effects us all. As you know, I'm a huge fan of airships, their like my favorite thing. Something about having a ship that can fly appeals to me greatly. It offers that same kind of feeling of adventure that one might get if we lived in a world with dragon slayers or something cool like that. You can go anywhere, land anywhere, and take all your belongings with you, thus, allowing you to live a whole different kind of lifestyle, that is unimaginable without such capabilities.

That's just so fantastic that the only place Airships have existed, aside from small blimps here or there in the last 50 years, is in fantasy video games mostly. If your a regular reader you know this has been changing for quit some time now, and we are now living in the world where the fantasy of having a ship that can fly is becoming reality!

So what happened yesterday and what's it all got to do with airships and the Mayans? Aero's the company building the highly anticipated Aeroscraft, which has what could be called the holy grail of airship technology, completed it's prototype and it's now ready for flight testing.

Check out their facebook announcement: Link

I think it's just perfect that Aero's completes their prototype on December 21st, 2012, because for me personally, I can now say the Mayan's were right!

3 second off astrological clocks, I knew you wouldn't fail me!

And just like Cortez where they still argue whether he fulfilled that prophecy (Which is a fact, Cortez did fulfill the prophecy.) People just don't like to admit he fulfilled the prophecy, because they understood how his technology worked, and thus to them, he was not a god. Yet the effect was the same, what the prophecy predicted, and what Cortez accomplished, it was the same thing, thus wasn't the prophecy fulfilled?

The Aeroscraft is much the same, it's a technology that we understand, so there's no magic about it, Yet 15 years ago, the idea of having an airship that could hull 20 tons of anything, land anywhere, control ballets, go for 3000miles on one tank of gas, need no ground crew, etc. It was unthinkable, and it existed only in minds of children's fantasy and the drawing boards of visionaries like Roger Munk, where it was believe it would remain forever. So if we look at it from the prospective of people 15 years ago, it really is magic, from that prospective, because it was unthinkable! Yet, now it's reality! It's so real you can tuch it.

So even if the Native Americans didn't understand that Cortez had technology like cannons and that's why he could shoot fire from the sky and blow up houses, that didn't matter to those people, because to them the effect was the same, he was a god, it didn't matter to them ether way because even if you didn't call him a god, they still had to deal with his god like powers. And just like those Native Americans, people 15 years ago thought Airships where just a bad idea, good for fantasy, football, and nothing more. Now, the fantasy has become reality, and the effect is no different from magic in my opinion. That's at lest, the way I see it.