[ExI] trust the fake science?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 11:26 AM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Standard commercial airships use at least 4 balloons, with the ability to
stay aloft if up to half of them are punctured.  I am aiming for the same
safety factor.  This is counterbalanced by large numbers of smaller
balloons being less efficient: due to square-cube law, the same volume of
smaller balloons can lift less than a few large ones.
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