The blimp’s for the canaille. They don’t have any balloon-busters, they just have IEDs and a narcoterror budget. The Blue Devil is what military aeronautics looks like when you’ve got absolute command of the sky.
Now,if you could build a really big Blue Devil, like a Fuller-Sphere geodesic version, and anchor it to the earth with carbon-fiber cables, and then install facial-recognition on the bottom and ultra-luxury malls inside? You’d have the kind of city implied by our financial situation. Rich guys in hemi-demi orbit, narco favelas on the ground.
http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/430/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page02.html#post43
More on Blue Devil http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/22/blue_devil_big_safari_adaptive_optics_tech/













