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Use airship technology (ie, one or more big balloons filled with a lighter than air gas, such as Helium, Hydrangias, Plutonium or Banana gas) to lift a platform, presenting an apparently frictionless traction surface.
Harness a couple of donkeys to it, to provide the forward motion.
The donkeys
will only need to put in the energy required to pull the load, but the apparent laden weight appears weightless.
The airshipness only needs to achieve friction-free state, and not supply any additional forward motion energy.
Not sure where to put all the tapirs, though.
Hybrid Horse-drawn Hovercraft
Hybrid Horse-drawn Hovercraft
A not unrelated idea. [zen_tom, Jul 21 2008]
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Can they be flying donkeys that cost under a grand? That way they could go into orbit. |
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//Not sure where to put all the tapirs, though.// |
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Put one at each end of the balloon to provide streamlining. |
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"Ahhh ! Does this mean the end of the Horse-Drawn Zeppelin ?" |
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A semi space age canal transport system, works for me. |
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A delicate balance is needed to prevent your asses from being hauled into the air. |
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//banana gas// I've had that. It's no fun. My ass is still recovering. |
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The airship could be tethered with a thin tube attached to a methane collecting device on the donkeys thereby providing some fuel for forward momentum. The donkeys could provide their own forward energy by means of carrots dangling off the front of the tapired airship. |
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If the blimp is large enough to lift anything significant, it will blow around in the wind a lot. My guess is this would be a lot worse than hauling a wagon. |
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You'll have to build a heavy cart to keep your ass on the ground. |
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Difficult to stop. Even though it's lost its
apparent weight, it still has all of its
inertia. You'd have to design a braking
system that doesn't rely on ground
friction. |
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Did those pirates ever get round to finding out how much an anchor weighs? |
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Would like it even more if the balloon was
carrot shaped. + |
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I think the braking problem was addressed in the other idea. The asses can be tethered to the airship in an octagonal arrangement, so it can be held back or prevented from drifting to the sides. |
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A smaller version using fairground helium balloons might allow creatures to convey morsels of food from one place to another, of course, asses would be too large for such a task - some suitable creature would have to stand in as a replacement. Some kind of rodent perhaps. A capybara would be far too large, and shrews are too small - what we need is something between those extremes. Yes, I'd like to see rats as asses. |
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[xenzag] and I think alike! All I could say, he has said. Where's the carrots? |
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I'm gonna [+] this for how much I'd like it to work, but it's not going to work. Dangling donkeys spell disaster for horse-drawn balloons. |
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I suppose the natural complementary idea to this one is a train pulled along by a flock of swans. |
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To avoid liability from PETA, who may complain about the lack of shade for the beast of un-burden, don't forget to cover your ass. |
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This idea is a horse's ass. I am off for my (two) cup(s) of coffee. |
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