Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive September 14, 2026
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getting ready for work or possibly commuting. All you need to make it extra special is a copper mug or a glass, a tanker, a Chelsea Steiner canteen, a joker flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. It's the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. So good

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Well, here's a cool story in technology. So apparently Lockheed Martin is building these hybrid airships. They're part lighter than air. What do they put in? Helium or something. So they fill them with a gas, but they're actually heavier than air. But they've designed them to be gigantic. So now they've got orders for these hybrid airships that are the size of a football field, and they're very stable apparently. And they can carry 20 tons of cargo to remote spaces, which is a pretty big deal because a lot of remote spaces are where you drill for oil or you need resources or you've got to bring them something.

So I can't imagine what would be cooler than traveling by gigantic airship. I wouldn't mind that it was slow. I would just think it would be a cool way to travel in luxury. Don't we need these? I think

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we need gigantic airships. Let's get these going. By the way, here's a cool little related factoid. When I was testing virtual reality goggles, I think it was HTC's goggles, now this was about three years ago, one of the contents that you could explore was you could go into the Hindenburg, the airship that caught on fire and was destroyed. And you could walk around inside it. You could go to the…

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