karl3ļ¼ writeme.com wrote: > wondering if we could launch into space using balloons > > is there some vague way this could be done? > > [.... > > what if there were a _lot_ of balloons? would it help? > > thinking ... the more balloons there are, it's like having a more massive > object (the displaced air) pushing the balloons upward! > > sadly, objects that are more massive do not fall faster, so with very simple > intuition it's possible that more balloons wouldn't help ...
how about this: we have a huge hydrogen balloon. _huge_. it rockets up until air approaches the density of hydrogen (needs some way to off-gas or expand). then we burn the excess hydrogen to go the rest of the way! i guess we'd burn the offgassing too but then there's no point to the balloon :s :s we could just burn hydrog--
