Gina Miller wrote:
>
> If an atmosphere is made of hydrogen then hydrogen will not be lighter than
> hydrogen. A vacuum, would work if you had a diamonoid shell that would be
> stiff enough to hold the vacuum.
> Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
> http://www.nanoindustries.com
> http://www.nanogirl.com
>
> > I've been thinking about blimps.
> > Consider Jupiter....a gas giant....now if for some reason we wanted to
> float
> > a "city" in jupiter's atmosphere....(or saturn's or uranus or neptune's)
> > which have an atmosphere of (mostly) hydrogen......what would be used?
> > Hot hydrogen or a vacumn?
Hot hydrogen would work, since the temperature of the atmosphere is
typically pretty low, just as hot air balloons work in an air
atmosphere. A Vacuum balloon (assuming you could build it to withstand
the gravitational metric) would work as well, but that would require a
whole nother set of calcualtions...
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