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Using the atmosphere to keep you off the ground feels like you have a problem where for every atmospheric molecule bouncing off your bottom pushing you upwards
by gpm 3y ago
Using the atmosphere to keep you off the ground feels like you have a problem where for every atmospheric molecule bouncing off your bottom pushing you upwards you're incurring a drag cost. My gut says that that means it's never going to work, but guts aren't always very good at engineering.
- tekla 3y agoWe normally call that 'flying'
- marcosdumay 3y agoThings don't normally fly at 7000 m/s. I wish them the best luck, but this is an odd project. And it's not clear it's saving any fuel or rocket structure.
- datadrivenangel 3y agoIt *may* work if you had some impressive wireless energy transfer, but that means you probably would not actually save any cost in the grand scheme of things. Blimps sound like they should be good for space, but as a concept they're oversized and full of hot air unfortunately.
- Taniwha 3y agoif you're high enough they don't need much air in them at all