Comments on: Lightest Material in the World

By: Phil Osborn

Phil Osborn — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:32:55 +0000

There’s also the space elevator to be considered. Spacing vacuum float rings to 40,000 ft. or more could significantly reduce the load on the cable.

By: Bri

Bri — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:06:19 +0000

The more I think. Ahem, hydrogen gas has the fewest nuclear component. The gas is very diffuse. The atoms are being repelled by thier elactron shells. I don’t know the weight difference , between a vacuum and hydrogen gas, but I bet the hydrogen is not so heavy. Very few, very light atoms. There are probably many more atoms of carbon per square inch in this ” light” material. To lift a single man up with a hydrogen ballon, would require a balloon of a least ten to fourteen feet in diameter. I used to joke to my clients, when something needed to be done way up high, that I used Helium balloons.

By: Bri

Bri — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:37:27 +0000

If it’s so compressible, how can it resist the compression of the atmosphere? I use vacuum bags to apply veneers. At sea level the force is like one hundred pounds per square inch( could look it up on Wikki, but why bother, very rarely use Wiki). Still would need a very large ballon to do anything useful.

By: Chrispium

Chrispium — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:25:16 +0000

Should get this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship to the developers of this material. /hint editor (carries more weight if you do it).

By: Phil Osborn

Phil Osborn — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:40:08 +0000

Might be the breakthrough needed to do a vacuum dirigable, something I’ve had my heart set on for decades…

By: Ralph Dratman

Ralph Dratman — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:37:14 +0000

True, of course. But humans have also been expressing pessimism about the future for those very same hundreds of thousands of years. Meanwhile, the young are always optimistic, simply because they don’t know any better. Young person = optimistic fool = cannon fodder OR creative genius. That is our human world: an incomprehensible mixture of good, bad and unclassifiable.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:55:54 +0000

As opposed to thinking of how this could kill everyone, I tend to think of the prefab structures that could be transported in a poor person’s backpack and opened up. Amazing to me how negative so many people are as if that is a noble and cool view to express. In a space dedicated to brilliance and a better future, like this, it is more fun to pretend that things just might work out like they have for humans for hundreds of thousands of years, and our instinct for survival will allow us to carry on.

By: SpottedMarley

SpottedMarley — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:48:39 +0000

You speak as though we aren’t already completely doomed anyways. By one means or another, we are toast my friend. Best warm up to the idea.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:27:10 +0000

Well, now, that is truly terrifying. Consider the weapons that could be made from this that could kill millions. Oh, that would be by governments so I guess that’s ok.

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:53:17 +0000

It looks like frozen smoke….