"Oh the humanity!"
I watched an interesting program about the Hindenburg Disaster last evening. (Spoiler Warning - I'm going to give away the surprise conclusion) According to the NASA hydrogen expert who became interested in the question, the problem wasn't all of the hydrogen in the thing. Hydrogen doesn't burn like that and is certainly not red and orange when it goes up in flames. The real culprit was a coating they used, which was essentially the same as rocket fuel. Good ol' Adolph Hitler thought he had a real propaganda tool in the sleek ultra-modern airship, but he lost out. Also hydrogen has been getting a bad rap all these years, because it really would be a useful and environmentally friendly (and they claim safe) energy source for transportation.

In other news: a plane flew into a tall building in New York. It was a bit surprising that such a thing could happen again. It was even more surprising that the building didn't collapse, which is what usually happens when a plane hits a building. Oh well, I'm sure they'll investigate thoroughly. I've always found that interesting in all of the crashes of airliners that we've seen through the years -- the black box recordings and all of that, the crash sites with the pieces of the airliners and all. Investigators meticulously putting the pieces together. It's horrible but necessary.

Oh well, it took years to uncover the truth about the Hindenburg (it turns out the Nazis actually knew what caused the fire but covered it up). Fortunately, those days are long gone.