From: joshua geller (dclxvi_at_best.com)
Date: 04/19/98
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:14:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804200214.TAA14957@shell5.ba.best.com> From: joshua geller <dclxvi_at_best.com> Subject: Re: Been kinda quiet, lately...
The Butterfly writes:
> -From: Harmon Seaver <hseaver_at_harmon.bml.usouthal.edu>
> True enough. That's one nice thing about the "Cloud 9"
> megastructures. They don't use helium or other lifting gas, but work off of
> pressure differential. This lets you use regular air, but the slightly
> heated air insize is less dense than the cold air outside. When you get the
> right size, the combined weight of the inner air *and* the entire structure
> containing that air becomes less than the surrounding cold air, and the
> whole thing floats.
> Well, theoretically, anyway. No one's ever built a .5mile or larger
> one to test it...yet.
right. show me.
no one spends millions of dollars on something that might work.
no one that I want to do business with, anyway.
best,
josh