Aww. It's such a quirky and funny thought, imagine eating the rubble as an intimidation attempt, like, the guy just missed but is trying to turn it into a "that was intentional, I wanted you to know what I'm going to do to your BRAIN after I cave in your skull!"
This is the kind of stuff that makes a game memorable IMO. As a DM, even if you don't want to allow it for some reason, just go along with it. Fake a roll and have the opponent yell back "Bahahah I haven't even hit you yet and you're already getting ready to start shitting bricks?!"
Such a monstrous clusterfuck, and you'll be hard pressed to find anyone having been sacked, let alone facing actual charges over the whole debacle.
If anything, I'd say that's the single best case for buying IBM - if you're incompetent and/or corrupt, just go with them and even if shit hits the fan, you'll be OK.
Maybe not if you compare them to anything flying during the WWI era, but the Hindenburg started flying in 1936. This is the same year that the Douglas DC-3 started flying commercially, and it absolutely revolutionized air travel. Just compare its cruise speed of 333 km/h with the Hindenburg's 125km/h, it's on a whole different level.
Granted, the DC-3 didn't have the range for transatlantic flights, where the first commercial flight would only come a few years later by a Boeing B-314. It required refueling stops at the Azores before reaching Lisbon, and took 42h to complete that trip. The Hindenburg would take anywhere between 43 to 61h on it's eastward flights, so it's fairly comparable, but if you compare actual flight time, it was under 30h for the Boeing, so it's clear it had a lot more potential than zeppelins.
Regarding costs and safety: true that helium was almost exclusively available in the US, but even there it was quite rare and expensive (this is true still to this day, helium is just a finite resource on Earth), not something that could keep up with the massive growth in air travel at the time. It's also provides less lift than hydrogen, so less passengers would have been carried.
Then WW II came around and aircraft tech just exploded. The DC-3, responsible for over 90% of all flights in 1939, was completely obsolete by the end of the war...
The writing was on the wall, lighter than air ships weren't meant to be. :(
Personally though, being able to give my kid one of my squares and seeing him complete is the single greatest joy in my entire life. Paradoxically, giving it away makes me whole.
Parenting must be a choice, taken freely and willingly, and the reason why birth control is a basic human need and right.
I don't think it's an issue of physics, since they work, and with sufficient time and investment, safety would sure be much improved - like planes, who evolved from flying death traps to the safest way of travelling.
It's the economics that don't seem to work out - expensive, slow, probably limited capacity compared to airplanes...
I'd just like to make the point that there are a lot of these explosives factories making explosives around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that explosives aren’t safe.
That is the American approach to legislation: get in as many laws that favour you or your sponsors, and pray the courts let at least some of them through.
That's not how this is meant to work. The courts shutting down a law is a last measure, when everything else has failed and hell's about to break loose.
Aww. It's such a quirky and funny thought, imagine eating the rubble as an intimidation attempt, like, the guy just missed but is trying to turn it into a "that was intentional, I wanted you to know what I'm going to do to your BRAIN after I cave in your skull!"
This is the kind of stuff that makes a game memorable IMO. As a DM, even if you don't want to allow it for some reason, just go along with it. Fake a roll and have the opponent yell back "Bahahah I haven't even hit you yet and you're already getting ready to start shitting bricks?!"