[ExI] trust the fake science?

[Keith Henson]

"I have imagined the void balloon being much smaller, then using a
large number of them -"

Some time ago a Japanese neutrino detector was lined with
photomultipliers the size of a TV CRT.

One broke and the cascading shock wave broke a substantial fraction of the rest.

Not saying this would happen with a bunch of void balloons, but it is
something to consider.

Keith

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 8:26 AM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 4:37 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> If you do study this, you might put in a paragraph about the
>> consequences of a large one failing.
>>
>> Air isn't as dense as water, but below a modest depth, a collapsing
>> volume will generate more of a shock blast than the same volume of
>> TNT.
>>
>> The consequences might be worse than one filled with hydrogen.
>
>
> I have imagined the void balloon being much smaller, then using a large number of them - akin almost to an aerogel that resists crush inside a skin.   If a few of these voxels are damaged, there are still plenty of others to mitigate a singular catastrophic implosion... you just lose buoyancy until you are parked.  :)  I guess having an unstable airship docking with your house would still be a bad day, but maybe not level the neighborhood.
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