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The-Necromancer β Imperial Airship Service Art Deco Poster
Published: 2013-11-08 07:22:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 6723; Favourites: 90; Downloads: 0
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Advertising for the fictional Kaiserliche Luftschiff Dienst (Imperial Airship Service), showing a slightly stylized version of one of the company's air-liners.Related content
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What would today be like if german airships had been used for an economic war of transporting goods instead of bombs ? Surely it would have been better. Sadly we cannot get a better past.
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An interesting thought, really. They would have made very appealing targets (as they still did), but the Zeppelin could have carried many a ton of freight to help ease the British blockade. It likely wouldn't have been enough to stave off the eventual collapse of the German Empire, but the big ships could have made fairly good supply vessels to and from friendly nations.
You are the first person I've ever encountered to suggest that the rigid airships could have been used as a "supply line", and it is indeed a fascinating "what-if".
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I'm sorry I wasn't clear . I mean that instead of World War I it would have been better if the countries had engaged in economic competition instead of combat ,with the airships as featured forms of transport for goods and passengers NOT weapons and soldiers.
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Ah. I see. Sadly, economic competition wasn't good enough. Germany was winning that race, you see.
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Everything goes in cycles. Is the UK better today for WWI?
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Well, that would depend on one's perspective. If one is or was pro-Empire, than no, the UK is not better today. Certainly in terms of global power, the UK lost it's "Great Power" status decades ago. The Great War is the seed of this decline, and not merely for the UK. Certainly the Great War was the seed of Germany's eventual destruction in WWII, tearing the nation literally in two for forty five years. Very few of the Victorian era powers survived the First World War, fewer still retain their prestige today.
On the other hand, the Great War was one of the earliest stepping stones for the ascendancy of America. Arguably, the Great War was also the spark Communism had begged for, allowing for the conditions that eventually created the USSR and inspired millions of Marxists around the world to take up active revolt. The Great War was a boon for Imperial Japan, strengthening it's military aspirations, proving itself as a rising Great Power in it's own right. This too, like Germany, eventually came back to nearly destroy an entire society.
While the Great War had been catastrophic for nearly all nations involved, it very literally shaped the course of human history for the next century to come. Even today we are feeling the echoes of that first titanic conflict. It's rather amazing, really...
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Well that was quite lengthy. Oddly enough I knew all that. Chuckle...the short answer would have been no.
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SUPERIOR GERMAN ENGINEERING!!! RAWR RAWR RAWR!!!!!!!
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Thats the POWER......of German Engineering.
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That answers the points I raised, and is just wonderful. Β Elegant, has a real feel to it, right in the styling--you did it, and handily!
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Took a very tiny amount of research, just to get the sort of patterns popular at the time right. I get the feeling my previous piece leaned a bit towards Art Nouveau with the patterned frame rather than Art Deco.
Very bold lines, industrial in some cases.
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