Who Needs Birds Or Fish When You Can Just Combine Them In One Handy Translucent Blimp?

Leave it to Swiss engineering to save the day. Now that we’re killing all the birds and making our oceans too oily for fish, the folks at Switzerland’s federal design lab EMPA have developed a cool new machine to replace both things at once. The Airfish is a flying contraption that will remind us of a time when actual carbon-based living creatures soared through the sky and swam in the seas. It’s cool to watch. And it seems to be quiet enough for governments to use it to surreptitiously monitor their citizens from above. But most importantly, maybe the guys who built it can make a really, really big version that can travel through space in five or six years, and take the last few remaining humans and the cockroaches to a different temporarily inhabitable planet.