10 Mar
2025
10 Mar
'25
6:32 p.m.
karl3＠writeme.com wrote:
karl3＠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
this really seems like it would be workable though because in thin air there'd be very little air friction and if your height is stable from being low density, and the air is thin, then with a baseline of energy output you could continuously accelerate, no? maybe i'll try asking one again