• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          Well, air weighs a little bit more than 1 kilogram per cubic meter, and those balloons look a little bit smaller than a cubic meter

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            What about hydrogen plasma as hot as the surface of the sun, contained in a weightless force field? The 'balloon is simply a decorative wrapper? Remember, it’s the future year 2025!

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              3 days ago

              Unless there’s force coming from somewhere other than buoyancy, you can’t get better than than 1.29 kg per cubic meter of lift in air at stp.

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                  You could try to use magnetism or something tho, although that means you’d only be able to walk on specially prepared lakes

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                    Don’t go down the rabbit hole.

                    Next we’ll be trying to explain why they needed a garbage disposal on the Death Star.

                    [Two reasons. first, the builder was trying to slow things down so he threw in extraneous stuff. second, there were regulations about ships over a certain tonnage, because no one wants tons of trash falling onto their planet.