My friend and I were chatting about airplanes (for no reason).
I brought up an interesting question, which is pretty easily answered: If you’re traveling opposite to the Earth’s rotation, couldn’t you just escape Earth’s gravity and let it turn beneath you?
It’d take less time and so much more fuel, obviously.
But, he asked and I’ve been wondering: how would travel insurance work, then? If you turned into space junk, would your family get more money than if you drowned in the ocean or were disintegrated on Earth?
Crossing the Karman line is a viable idea for travel in the future. It’s explored in the 39 Clue’s Mission Hindenburg.
Well, is that efficient or quicker, really? You’re traveling less distance (theoretically) if you take the path I described, but…it takes more fuel to accelerate something to 17500 mph rather than 620. Additionally, it takes so much time to get up there.
What about lightweight blimps?
How would those get into space, and how would they hold in the air (pressure difference)?
How would they keep their passengers safe?
Getting into space requires engines. Holding in the air requires changing mixtures at certain altitudes. Passengers? Seatbelts.
When you left this town, with your windows down And the wilderness inside Let the exits pass, all the tar and glass 'Til the road and sky align extended sig
Easy. A-l-o-a-n-o-u-g-h (the ough like in ‘trough’).
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When you left this town, with your windows down And the wilderness inside Let the exits pass, all the tar and glass 'Til the road and sky align extended sig
When you left this town, with your windows down And the wilderness inside Let the exits pass, all the tar and glass 'Til the road and sky align extended sig
My friend and I were chatting about airplanes (for no reason).
I brought up an interesting question, which is pretty easily answered: If you’re traveling opposite to the Earth’s rotation, couldn’t you just escape Earth’s gravity and let it turn beneath you?
It’d take less time and so much more fuel, obviously.
But, he asked and I’ve been wondering: how would travel insurance work, then? If you turned into space junk, would your family get more money than if you drowned in the ocean or were disintegrated on Earth?
Crossing the Karman line is a viable idea for travel in the future. It’s explored in the 39 Clue’s Mission Hindenburg.
Well, is that efficient or quicker, really? You’re traveling less distance (theoretically) if you take the path I described, but…it takes more fuel to accelerate something to 17500 mph rather than 620. Additionally, it takes so much time to get up there.
What about lightweight blimps?
How would those get into space, and how would they hold in the air (pressure difference)?
How would they keep their passengers safe?
Getting into space requires engines. Holding in the air requires changing mixtures at certain altitudes. Passengers? Seatbelts.
It also requires 17500 miles per hour and a lot of vertical thrust. You suggested getting past the Karman line (at 100km), but you can’t just coast up there. Either your blimp has rocket engines, which can do the job, and then it’s no longer a blimp (no point in having the gas), or it just can’t get any higher than the low stratosphere without special modifications.
It can’t just change mixtures. Blimps require helium, and that’s a low-pressure thing that can get them up in an atmosphere. Outer space’s pressure is next to nil. The helium is going to expand much faster than the blimp can deal with it, and there goes the air.
What about breathing? You’ll need life support and an airtight compartment large enough for them all, and that weighs a lot. Could a blimp carry it?
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When you left this town, with your windows down And the wilderness inside Let the exits pass, all the tar and glass 'Til the road and sky align extended sig
Tehehe
Hello! Call me Tana
My pronouns are She/Her
I have Autism. And, you would probably call me Trans Femme, Pansexual pancake, and Ace
I will always support you. To the best of my ability. Because that is my way of showing how much I care
Current Dice Code: [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] = [roll][roll:-6]+[roll:-5]+[roll:-4]+[roll:-3]+[roll:-2]+[roll:-1][/roll]
Current List of Children: Golden, Salem, Wes, Aspen, Link, and Foalin.
Do I make you feel anxious?
Do you feel safe in your own home?
Can you spell "alone?"
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
No. Probably never
If I knew you IRL, you would probably be one of my best friends.
Sometimes
Hello! Call me Tana
My pronouns are She/Her
I have Autism. And, you would probably call me Trans Femme, Pansexual pancake, and Ace
I will always support you. To the best of my ability. Because that is my way of showing how much I care
Current Dice Code: [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] = [roll][roll:-6]+[roll:-5]+[roll:-4]+[roll:-3]+[roll:-2]+[roll:-1][/roll]
Current List of Children: Golden, Salem, Wes, Aspen, Link, and Foalin.
Getting into space requires engines. Holding in the air requires changing mixtures at certain altitudes. Passengers? Seatbelts.
Heyo! You can call me Link. Here’s a bit about me:
Roomba Knight, Architect of the Cataclysm, Foxy Lunar Archpriest. Dubbed The Fluffy Bowman by Golden. He/Him
Theatre Kid, Ravenclaw, bookworm, DM, Lego fanatic, mythology nerd, pedantic about spelling. I also love foxes, cats, otters, and red pandas!
I love K-pop Demon Hunters and Korean Mythology. If you want to ask me about something, send me a PM!
I love to bake and make delicious treats!
A, L, o, n, e!
Heyo! You can call me Link. Here’s a bit about me:
Roomba Knight, Architect of the Cataclysm, Foxy Lunar Archpriest. Dubbed The Fluffy Bowman by Golden. He/Him
Theatre Kid, Ravenclaw, bookworm, DM, Lego fanatic, mythology nerd, pedantic about spelling. I also love foxes, cats, otters, and red pandas!
I love K-pop Demon Hunters and Korean Mythology. If you want to ask me about something, send me a PM!
I love to bake and make delicious treats!
Hiiii
When you left this town, with your windows down
And the wilderness inside
Let the exits pass, all the tar and glass
'Til the road and sky align
extended sig
Very good answers. 3/3 correct.
This will be on your permanent record.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
Okay!
Hello! Call me Tana
My pronouns are She/Her
I have Autism. And, you would probably call me Trans Femme, Pansexual pancake, and Ace
I will always support you. To the best of my ability. Because that is my way of showing how much I care
Current Dice Code: [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] = [roll][roll:-6]+[roll:-5]+[roll:-4]+[roll:-3]+[roll:-2]+[roll:-1][/roll]
Current List of Children: Golden, Salem, Wes, Aspen, Link, and Foalin.
Hi!
Hello! Call me Tana
My pronouns are She/Her
I have Autism. And, you would probably call me Trans Femme, Pansexual pancake, and Ace
I will always support you. To the best of my ability. Because that is my way of showing how much I care
Current Dice Code: [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] = [roll][roll:-6]+[roll:-5]+[roll:-4]+[roll:-3]+[roll:-2]+[roll:-1][/roll]
Current List of Children: Golden, Salem, Wes, Aspen, Link, and Foalin.
Permanent record?
Heyo! You can call me Link. Here’s a bit about me:
Roomba Knight, Architect of the Cataclysm, Foxy Lunar Archpriest. Dubbed The Fluffy Bowman by Golden. He/Him
Theatre Kid, Ravenclaw, bookworm, DM, Lego fanatic, mythology nerd, pedantic about spelling. I also love foxes, cats, otters, and red pandas!
I love K-pop Demon Hunters and Korean Mythology. If you want to ask me about something, send me a PM!
I love to bake and make delicious treats!
Permanent Record.
Hello! Call me Tana
My pronouns are She/Her
I have Autism. And, you would probably call me Trans Femme, Pansexual pancake, and Ace
I will always support you. To the best of my ability. Because that is my way of showing how much I care
Current Dice Code: [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] = [roll][roll:-6]+[roll:-5]+[roll:-4]+[roll:-3]+[roll:-2]+[roll:-1][/roll]
Current List of Children: Golden, Salem, Wes, Aspen, Link, and Foalin.
No.
Yeah, sorta?
Easy. A-l-o-a-n-o-u-g-h (the ough like in ‘trough’).
When you left this town, with your windows down
And the wilderness inside
Let the exits pass, all the tar and glass
'Til the road and sky align
extended sig
Hru?
When you left this town, with your windows down
And the wilderness inside
Let the exits pass, all the tar and glass
'Til the road and sky align
extended sig
Aloanough?
Heyo! You can call me Link. Here’s a bit about me:
Roomba Knight, Architect of the Cataclysm, Foxy Lunar Archpriest. Dubbed The Fluffy Bowman by Golden. He/Him
Theatre Kid, Ravenclaw, bookworm, DM, Lego fanatic, mythology nerd, pedantic about spelling. I also love foxes, cats, otters, and red pandas!
I love K-pop Demon Hunters and Korean Mythology. If you want to ask me about something, send me a PM!
I love to bake and make delicious treats!
Uujhhhhh
Better.
Hello! Call me Tana
My pronouns are She/Her
I have Autism. And, you would probably call me Trans Femme, Pansexual pancake, and Ace
I will always support you. To the best of my ability. Because that is my way of showing how much I care
Current Dice Code: [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] = [roll][roll:-6]+[roll:-5]+[roll:-4]+[roll:-3]+[roll:-2]+[roll:-1][/roll]
Current List of Children: Golden, Salem, Wes, Aspen, Link, and Foalin.
Excellent answers as well! 3/3
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
No.
Most of the time.
A-l-o-n-e. Easy.
Heyo! You can call me Link. Here’s a bit about me:
Roomba Knight, Architect of the Cataclysm, Foxy Lunar Archpriest. Dubbed The Fluffy Bowman by Golden. He/Him
Theatre Kid, Ravenclaw, bookworm, DM, Lego fanatic, mythology nerd, pedantic about spelling. I also love foxes, cats, otters, and red pandas!
I love K-pop Demon Hunters and Korean Mythology. If you want to ask me about something, send me a PM!
I love to bake and make delicious treats!
Considering that I didn't answer the second question: The Answer is no.
Hello! Call me Tana
My pronouns are She/Her
I have Autism. And, you would probably call me Trans Femme, Pansexual pancake, and Ace
I will always support you. To the best of my ability. Because that is my way of showing how much I care
Current Dice Code: [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] + [roll]1d4[/roll] = [roll][roll:-6]+[roll:-5]+[roll:-4]+[roll:-3]+[roll:-2]+[roll:-1][/roll]
Current List of Children: Golden, Salem, Wes, Aspen, Link, and Foalin.
It also requires 17500 miles per hour and a lot of vertical thrust. You suggested getting past the Karman line (at 100km), but you can’t just coast up there. Either your blimp has rocket engines, which can do the job, and then it’s no longer a blimp (no point in having the gas), or it just can’t get any higher than the low stratosphere without special modifications.
It can’t just change mixtures. Blimps require helium, and that’s a low-pressure thing that can get them up in an atmosphere. Outer space’s pressure is next to nil. The helium is going to expand much faster than the blimp can deal with it, and there goes the air.
What about breathing? You’ll need life support and an airtight compartment large enough for them all, and that weighs a lot. Could a blimp carry it?
When you left this town, with your windows down
And the wilderness inside
Let the exits pass, all the tar and glass
'Til the road and sky align
extended sig
Hiii
Hiii :3
14yo cancer, bisexual(maybe Pan?), Genderfluid femboy, prefer She/They but don’t mind what pronouns you call me
Love all soulsbourne and soulslike games + metroidvanias.