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Josh Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

There was, you know, that outer skin that we were talking about, but that skin wasn't directly wrapped on the frame.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

It had these little wooden spacers, like hundreds, I would imagine thousands of these things, spacing it out so it didn't actually touch the frame.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

And his proposal was that when the ship dropped those ropes that we talked about, and I said to put a pin in it, that the space between the ship's skin collected a lot of positive energy

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

electrostatic charge during that storm so that the area between the skin and the metal frame collected electrons when the ropes hit the ground and it turned it into just a big, basically a giant bomb, a big energy storing capacitor that was dotted with these little capacitors like ignition points essentially.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah, this sounds pretty good.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah, and it's the most recent one.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

I guess the others have been debunked.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

So, you know, I'm bandwagoning, admittedly.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

For sure.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

I mean, there are new airships happening, and there's, you know, there's people working with hydrogen again.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

So it's like enough time has passed to where they're looking into this kind of thing again.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

I think the Pathfinder 1, Google co-founder Sergey Brin is the sort of brainchild behind that one.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

That thing is 408 feet long, and I think is still like none of these things are –

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

commercialized yet.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

They're like still in testing phases and development phases.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah, I mean, hydrogen's being used for other things, but yeah, they're still, I don't think they could ever use hydrogen again for something like this.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Okay, yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

If you want to see parts of it, I told you, you know, some is in the Smithsonian.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Some of the pieces of the ship, some of the luxury stuff, you know, kind of like the Titanic survived.