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I would love to see a vacuum based airship! Stop filling the void with anything and recoup the some of the added structural weight by (nearly) complete absence
by imoverclocked 4y ago
I would love to see a vacuum based airship! Stop filling the void with anything and recoup the some of the added structural weight by (nearly) complete absence of mass. Then the game is just keeping all gasses out instead of keeping a special gas in. Implosion hazards would be interesting to mitigate though…
- xphos 4y agoIt's really really hard to pull a vacuum on a large area the internal stress of not having a fluid is way way more than a less dense fluid occupying the space
- imoverclocked 4y agoYeah, but exotic materials like graphene aerogel might allow for static pockets to fill the void. We (humanity) have developed some pretty insane materials since we really explored the airship space originally. It would at least be interesting to explore.