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O-220
Ultralight zeppelin (Read the full article)
| "The thing about the O-220 is that its "lifting gas" is vacuum. Not possible in Burroughs' day because anything which could hold a vacuum was so thick and heavy that you don't have any lift. Harbenite was the unobtainium which made the vacuum airship possible.
Surely we're close to inventing a "Harbenite" of our own. Carbon nanotubes maybe?" (Xenophile 11/10/2010 6:19:23 PM ) |
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