Vacuum Aiships

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Vacuum Aiships

# 12506 byian.woollard@... on May 11, 2012, 4:49 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

On 11 May 2012 17:41, sailor.barsoom wrote:

> The magnetic stuff is just to get the mass moving, serve as a frictionless
> bearing, and keep it moving. It is the outward pressure of mass in motion
> that counters the inward pressure of the sea (or atmosphere, in the airship
> case).
>

The outward pressure of the moving mass has to act through the bearing, and
the bearing is magnetic, which has the limitation I mentioned.

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-Ian Woollard