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[[File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|thumb|Flock of Carnivorous dirigibles.  USN photo circa 1930-31.]]'''Carnivorous digible''' (''Dirigible horribilis'') is a species of self-aware [[Dirigible (nonfiction)|dirigible]].  
[[File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|thumb|Military officers display the [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|bomb recovered at Palomares]], with flock of carnivorous dirigibles in the background.]]'''Carnivorous digible''' (''Dirigible horribilis'') is a species of self-aware [[Dirigible (nonfiction)|dirigible]].  


It is a grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible.
It is an autonomous grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible.


The term "carnivous", and the Latin name ''Dirigible horribilis'', were coined by [[Edward Lear]].
== Commentary ==
 
[[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] writes:
 
<blockquote>
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: [https://www.facebook.com/kenneth.e.sherman/posts/10220894594308671?comment_id=10220925149552533&reply_comment_id=10220925946572458 Facebook comment]]
</blockquote>


== In the News ==
== In the News ==


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File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=1966 Palomares B-52 crash|[[1966 Palomares B-52 crash|Bomb recovered]] from Palomera generates flock of carnivorous dirigibles.
File:Palomares H-Bomb Incident.jpg|link=1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966: Bomb recovered from [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Palomares B-52 crash]] stimulates growth of carnivorous dirigibles.
 
File:Plumbbob-Stokes barrage balloon.jpg|link=Stokes (nonfiction)|1957: A day after the [[Stokes (nonfiction)|Stokes nuclear weapon test]], large numbers of carnivorous dirigibles unexpectedly die.
 
File:Charles Renard.jpg|link=Charles Renard (nonfiction)|November 22,l 1903: Engineer, airship pioneer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist [[Charles Renard (nonfiction)|Charles Renard]] discovers a set of preferred numbers which increase the buoyancy of [[carnivorous dirigibles]].
 
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|Artist-engineer harvests new [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|bingo algorithms]] from [[Diagramaceous soil]], hopes to domesticate Carnivorous dirigibles.
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|Artist-engineer harvests new [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|bingo algorithms]] from [[Diagramaceous soil]], hopes to domesticate Carnivorous dirigibles.
File:Francesco Lana de Terzi Flying boat 1670.png|link=Airship (nonfiction)|[[Airship (nonfiction)|Aerial Ship]] reports sighting of "dirrigibelli horribelli" - probably the Carnivorous dirigible.
File:Francesco Lana de Terzi Flying boat 1670.png|link=Airship (nonfiction)|[[Airship (nonfiction)|Aerial Ship]] reports sighting of "dirrigibelli horribelli" - probably the Carnivorous dirigible.
File:Vostok1_descent_module.jpg|link=Spacecraft (nonfiction)|[[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|Vostok-1 descent module]] fears nothing, has nothing to fear from Carnivorous dirigibles.
File:Vostok1_descent_module.jpg|link=Spacecraft (nonfiction)|[[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|Vostok-1 descent module]] fears nothing, has nothing to fear from Carnivorous dirigibles.
File:Wigner–Seitz cell.svg|link=Zoan|"[[Zoan|Zoans delicious]]," according to survey of carnivorous dirigibles.
File:Wigner–Seitz cell.svg|link=Zoan|"[[Zoan|Zoans delicious]]," according to survey of carnivorous dirigibles.
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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Autonomous gibbet]]
* [[Edward Lear]]
* [[Edward Lear]]
* [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]
* [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]
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== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
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File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|[[Edward Lear (nonfiction)]].
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* [[Carnivore (nonfiction)]]
* [[Carnivore (nonfiction)]]

Latest revision as of 12:21, 8 February 2022

Military officers display the bomb recovered at Palomares, with flock of carnivorous dirigibles in the background.

Carnivorous digible (Dirigible horribilis) is a species of self-aware dirigible.

It is an autonomous 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

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference