Gaslands

Exploring the Forgotten World of Helium in the Light of Recent Blimp Developments: Part 1

This is the first in a three part series about West Texas and helium I’m writing for BlimpDAO. I’m first publishing them directly from my Urbit planet, decentralized style, here.

El Paso Airport Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Amex Platinum, I pillage an upgrade from Grayscale Blob to black Maserati. California plates. Looks to be about 6-7 years old, maybe more. It still proudly advertised its SD card reader, sagged in places, ghetto like, and of course reeked of cigarettes just like every other rental car on Earth.

The Maserati turned heads for a while and it reached 140 without protest, but a Maserati sedan starts to look like a Nissan Altima as the layers of road dust accumulate, especially when it’s black. So where in El Paso I couldn’t park at a Walgreen’s without loiterers asking questions—”where ya even get that thing serviced out here?”—by the time I reached Amarillo only the valet was kind enough to offer “sir, by the way, I love your vehicle.”

Whether or not this helped or hurt my larp…