karl3ļ¼ writeme.com wrote: > ... > > 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--
the language model basically said there is way more energy needed to reach orbit from near-vacuum than to reach near-vacuum from the ground, although i could misremembering or mis-saying it
