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'''Carnivorous digible''' (''Dirigible horribilis'') is a species of self-aware [[Dirigible (nonfiction)|dirigible]]. | [[File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|thumb|Military officers display the [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|bomb recovered at Palomares]], with flock of carnivorous dirigibles in the background.]]'''Carnivorous digible''' (''Dirigible horribilis'') is a species of self-aware [[Dirigible (nonfiction)|dirigible]]. | ||
It is | It is an autonomous grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible. | ||
== Commentary == | |||
[[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] writes: | |||
<blockquote> | |||
Most technology, when I give it sentience, I do so with love ... like animism, with machines instead of animals. | |||
Mechimism. | |||
It's the injustice of a sentient airship being called "carnivorous" when it is in fact an herbivorous ruminant. | |||
That's the sad-funny part: the sadness of being misunderstood. | |||
[Source: [https://www.facebook.com/kenneth.e.sherman/posts/10220894594308671?comment_id=10220925149552533&reply_comment_id=10220925946572458 Facebook comment]] | |||
</blockquote> | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
<gallery | <gallery> | ||
File:Palomares H-Bomb Incident.jpg|link=1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966: Bomb recovered from [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Palomares B-52 crash]] stimulates growth of carnivorous dirigibles. | |||
File:Plumbbob-Stokes barrage balloon.jpg|link=Stokes (nonfiction)|1957: A day after the [[Stokes (nonfiction)|Stokes nuclear weapon test]], large numbers of carnivorous dirigibles unexpectedly die. | |||
File:Charles Renard.jpg|link=Charles Renard (nonfiction)|November 22,l 1903: Engineer, airship pioneer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist [[Charles Renard (nonfiction)|Charles Renard]] discovers a set of preferred numbers which increase the buoyancy of [[carnivorous dirigibles]]. | |||
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|Artist-engineer harvests new [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|bingo algorithms]] from [[Diagramaceous soil]], hopes to domesticate Carnivorous dirigibles. | |||
File:Francesco Lana de Terzi Flying boat 1670.png|link=Airship (nonfiction)|[[Airship (nonfiction)|Aerial Ship]] reports sighting of "dirrigibelli horribelli" - probably the Carnivorous dirigible. | File:Francesco Lana de Terzi Flying boat 1670.png|link=Airship (nonfiction)|[[Airship (nonfiction)|Aerial Ship]] reports sighting of "dirrigibelli horribelli" - probably the Carnivorous dirigible. | ||
File:Vostok1_descent_module.jpg|link=Spacecraft (nonfiction)|[[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|Vostok-1 descent module]] fears nothing, has nothing to fear from Carnivorous dirigibles. | File:Vostok1_descent_module.jpg|link=Spacecraft (nonfiction)|[[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|Vostok-1 descent module]] fears nothing, has nothing to fear from Carnivorous dirigibles. | ||
File:Wigner–Seitz cell.svg|link=Zoan|"[[Zoan|Zoans delicious]]," according to survey of carnivorous dirigibles. | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Autonomous gibbet]] | |||
* [[Edward Lear]] | * [[Edward Lear]] | ||
* [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] | * [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] | ||
* [[Zoan]] - | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Carnivore (nonfiction)]] | * [[Carnivore (nonfiction)]] | ||
Latest revision as of 12:21, 8 February 2022
Carnivorous digible (Dirigible horribilis) is a species of self-aware dirigible.
It is an autonomous grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible.
Commentary
Karl Jones writes:
Most technology, when I give it sentience, I do so with love ... like animism, with machines instead of animals. Mechimism.
It's the injustice of a sentient airship being called "carnivorous" when it is in fact an herbivorous ruminant.
That's the sad-funny part: the sadness of being misunderstood.
[Source: Facebook comment]
In the News
1966: Bomb recovered from Palomares B-52 crash stimulates growth of carnivorous dirigibles.
1957: A day after the Stokes nuclear weapon test, large numbers of carnivorous dirigibles unexpectedly die.
November 22,l 1903: Engineer, airship pioneer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Charles Renard discovers a set of preferred numbers which increase the buoyancy of carnivorous dirigibles.
Artist-engineer harvests new bingo algorithms from Diagramaceous soil, hopes to domesticate Carnivorous dirigibles.
Aerial Ship reports sighting of "dirrigibelli horribelli" - probably the Carnivorous dirigible.
Vostok-1 descent module fears nothing, has nothing to fear from Carnivorous dirigibles.
"Zoans delicious," according to survey of carnivorous dirigibles.