[ExI] trust the fake science?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 1:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The Airlander's shape is not an option for a vacuum balloon, which must be
> spherical and enormous because its shell is a structural element under
> enormous compression stress.
>

As Mike said, think outside the balloon.  A modern airship has multiple
balloons.  So would an airship using vacuum balloons.

Consider, for instance, the classic cigar-shaped blimp with four or six
vacuum balloons taking up most of the internal volume, the cigar shape
being essentially light stiff armor (since the vacuum balloons are under
considerable mechanical stress already) and streamlining around the whole
set.  It would use airscrews, just like modern airships.
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