The One About Amazon’s Floating Warehouses

My guess about this one is that it’s a joke—something like Elon Musk’s tunnel boring tweets.

Assuming that it would be physically possible to float hundreds of tons of merchandise over a city (forget about the FAA for a moment), what would the economics of that look like?

In any event, Jeff Bezos will probably be able to launch himself into space long before the floating warehouse plans… take off.

Via: Inverse:

Way back in April, Amazon quietly received a patent for “aerial fulfillment centers” — massive blimp warehouses that would float 45,000 feet in the sky and deliver products with precision-guided UAVs. In other words, in the future, you could order something online and have it literally fall out of the sky minutes later.

U.S. patent 9,305,280 was filed by Amazon Technologies Inc. on behalf of inventors Paul William Berg, Scott Isaacs, and Kelsey Lynn Blodgett all the way back in December of 2014.