[ExI] trust the fake science?

[Mike Dougherty]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 2:37 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> "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.
>

Yeah, it would be nice to design graceful failure mode like an escalator
fails into stairs rather than a no-air balloon failing into a Tunguska
style event. :)

>
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