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tldr: "But Beaux noted that these small-scale prototypes were not air buoyant. "We've demonstrated that we can build them, we can pull vacuum, but in order to
by mhb 4y ago
tldr:
"But Beaux noted that these small-scale prototypes were not air buoyant.
"We've demonstrated that we can build them, we can pull vacuum, but in order to make them flow to air, we just need to make them bigger," he said."
So, step two: profit.
- mjhay 4y agoSounds like they built a novel kind of vacuum chamber. A larger balloon would have larger compressive stress over its entire surface. I'm very skeptical that could ever be made to float.