Originally Posted by
pettinger93
SNIP
I can think of a lot of examples of new ideas that were ridiculed at first, then, when they turned out to work, were hailed as a wonderful breakthrough.
Thing is, this is not a new idea--it's rather over a hundred years old. Aerostats have to be large and light, which means they are always going to be extremely vulnerable to weather.
I'm not sure there have been all that many transformative ideas that were widely ridiculed at first. There's an error of thinking called "They laughed at Christopher Columbus."