Carnivorous dirigible
Carnivorous digible (Dirigible horribilis) is a species of self-aware dirigible.
It is a 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
1957: A day after the Stokes nuclear weapon test, large numbers of carnivorous dirigibles unexpectedly die.
1966: Bomb recovered from Palomares B-52 crash stimulates growth 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.