2022-03-18 at 5:46 PM UTC
It would be a company for researching and developing advanced balloon technology.
2022-03-18 at 6:07 PM UTC
We would develop the first balloonic space elevator system that uses advanced balloon engineering to reduce cost of raising payloads to orbit.
A majority of the gravitational cost of raising a payload would be covered by enormous kevlar balloon cells filled with hydrogen that can simply float to the edge of the atmosphere.
At this point, the payload balloon meets up with a much larger semi-permanent balloon terminal that is kept afloat near the edge of the atmosphere with conventional rocketry and either helium or vacuum ballooning for safety, and will be operated on solar power as it will float above the cloud layers. The payload can then finally be "last mile" launched to orbit with conventional rocketry, greatly reducing the fuel costs. These crafts can be made reusable and propelled by hydralox that is fractionally distilled from the atmosphere using the abundant solar power available at that atmosphere.
Once this infrastructure is in place, we will begin taking advantage of vacuum manufacturing to revolutionize the world of balloonics. This will involve using the natural near-vacuum of Low-Earth-Orbit to manufacture sealed, hollow steel spheres. Overall each sphere will be lighter than air at altitudes habitable by humans. Hydrogen gets you 93% of the lift but is less safe, so it's better used to get stuff of the ground when a vacuum is not cheaply available.
These vacuum spheres can be used in all kinds of commercial applications. They will be a kind of tradeable "anti-gravity" (buoyancy functionally) commodity that can lift things up for you on demand. People can keep a closet full of them in the house to use for lifting heavy things or reaching high cabinets or roofing. Instead of cars people will ride around in vacuum sphere based balloon vehicles, a technological magic carpet that can go where no roads need by constructed.
In the event if a balloon springing a leak, all that happens is that it will slowly float to the ground and become a simple steel sphere. It will be easily recyclable, is easy for the environment to reabsorb etc.
2022-03-18 at 6:18 PM UTC
General Balloonics would revolutionise information communications technology with BalloonLink, a series of enormous high altitude balloons that serve as telecoms stations. Each balloon will be large enough to contain a hydrogen distillation system that can keep it aloft indefinitely, and the solar panels and batteries to power itself.
To prevent leaks, the balloon will be designed with an "active negative pressure" system, wherein the balloon is not sealed but rather designed to leak slowly in a controlled fashion, so there are no uncontrolled ruptures. Freshly distilled hydrogen is introduced into the balloon at a rate matching that of the outflow. This system can also be used to finely control the balloons' altitude and bring them back down as needed. More hydrogen will be distilled than needed for buoyancy and this can be used for propulsion to steer the balloon. All of this will be automated into one clean package so the safety of hydrogen doesn't really matter that much. The dangers of hydrogen ballooning are also vastly overhyped in general.
This way a swarm of high altitude balloons can encircle the earth and provide global internet coverage for free
2022-03-19 at 12:11 AM UTC
I would like to invest 25 USDT
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2022-03-19 at 6:07 AM UTC
Balloonics will revolutionise cities. Vast airborne urban environments will be built for human habitation. No longer will the earth have to be sullied and raped for the purpose of constructing human cities. Instead human civilization will become truly three dimensional when it is built in the sky, rather than the mere 2.5 dimensional expansion that we currently practice here on the ground. Human beings will not just inhabit the lands, sea and space but the sharp distinctions between these domains will turn to subtle gradations and eventually dissolve entirely. All on the back of the buoyant wings of the science of balloonics.
2022-03-19 at 4:59 PM UTC
General Balloonics will celebrate No Nigger November, where you won't say Nigger for the whole month of November. This will be an official company wide policy.
2023-03-08 at 7:32 PM UTC
my first line of duty will be attach rocket launchers to the sides. a balloon is a fucking massive floating target, moves slow has no defense etc. rocket launchers will fix this
2023-03-08 at 7:34 PM UTC
next order of business redefining a constant we call pi which is just 2*(normal pi) this will get rid of unnecessary redundancies in the math such as having to write out 2pi*r etc as it will just become pi*r this will save us much time and get a leg up on the competition
2023-03-08 at 7:35 PM UTC
next order of business someones gonna have to start tweeting up some bullshit and lets get those stock prices pumped the fuck up so much its like a balloon about to burst
