It looks like the cruising speed on R101 (as a random sample airship) is about 60mph. To cover the 5000 miles from London to Spaceport America would only take four days flat-out; stopping off in New York (to moor to the Empire State, naturally) wouldn't add much distance. You're right, I clearly need to retake that picture.

I deliberately left all the names off, because it seems more fun that way. ;) Possibilities are Dann, Araeph, AW, Hellga or BiD (they both pop in occasionally), ehm... Elcalion and VixenMage, maybe? I forget when VM joined. Basically it's four so that it's not just hS-Kaitlyn-Nesh. (Kaitlyn says she's Gimli, by the way)

The films (and the TV series! I hear they're discussing reviving it for Series 6, but given the disaster that was 5, I'm not sure that's a good plan) would definitely have been put on silent after the first couple of runs. So they're just background colour. (Also: I'm emphatically assuming medical technology will have made us all sprightly pensioners, and that then the Gummint will steal our pensions and make us work until we're 110)

More Things Nine Elderly PPCers Can Do

* Finally film something - anything - from the PPC canon.

* Write a VR PPC computer game.

* Rewrite it to be a multiplayer, competitive VR PPC computer game.

* Write the definitive PPC semi-autobiography.

* Finally get all the references onto the Wiki!

* Build a 1:1 replica of Middle-earth (including Beleriand) in Minecraft 3.

* Create the 'Phantom Edit' of the Hobbit-LotR series - a book-friendly mashup of all six nine films. (The third trilogy, by the way, is Numenor)

* Attempt to synthesise Bleeprin (and have to evacuate part of the ship for a week!). [This is Kaitlyn's one]

* Spend months planning to redesign the ship to actually look like Vingilot.

* Translate the Silmarillion into Quenya.

* Reconstruct Westron.

hS

PS: Wrong name. You call it 'Suza, New-Za'. And that... almost sounds doable.

Of course, if I would just get off my tail and making, I wouldn't have to wait . . .

Because- well, just- WOW. I almost felt like I was there, tramping over Titan, singing, Far over the Misty Mountains cold, to dungeons deep, and caverns-
AHEM.
Anyway. I will certainly come/have come/will come in the future.
Speaking of which, when is the next Gathering scheduled?

Doom Mons - the largest mountain on Titan, rising a mile above the dark plains of Aztlan - is directly adjacent to Sotra Patera - a gigantic cryovolcano.

We can stand on Doom Mons and throw the One Ring into an ice volcano.

(Hilariously, the 'lava' from a cryovolcano includes the molten form of, uh, ice)

hS

Titan's surface gravity is 0.14 g, which should be sufficient for majestic floating. It's a little less than the Moon's.

KSP rocket science is not going to get us there, though. We need someone with Orbiter experience.

Also, we can launch the trees up separately, then load them aboard once we've escaped Earth's gravity well. This may or may not make things easier.