Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by honestoHeminway 3285 days ago
Vacuum still has the best lifting power of them all..
1 comments

We just need a material as light as a balloon but rigid enough to hold its shape and maintain a huge vacuum at 1 atmosphere outside pressure.
Perhaps graphene aerogel, with a nonpermeable graphene casing?

I'm not sure of what its behavior would be with all its air sucked out, though.

like a hair full of nothing..