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- Aug 14, 2001
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Originally posted by: sao123
Originally posted by: MetalStorm
Yes, at the moment electrolysis is used to gain hydrogen from water, however when fusion is practicle, that will no longer be a problem at all. That's what I'm waiting for anyway!
Also the density of the liquid surface can be anything it wants, the fact is that you will easily be able to float on it, as I've said before you just have to displace the same amount of liquid as your weight and there you go, you float.
except that due to the low density of liquid hydrogen, the volume of liquid you would have to displace to be equal to your weight would be greater than the volume of your boat. Especially since at the surface, jupiters gravity is like 2.4 times that of earth.
I've thought about this for like, 2 whole minutes, and I can't decide for sure, but... Isn't the value of G (sort of) irrelevant? What determines if the boat floats or not is the relative density of the boat and the liquid, right? So G could be 0.01 or 100, as long as our boat maintains structural integrity. Unless I'm missing something.
And I think you could make a boat for liquid methane or hydrogen or whatever. A blimp is essentially a boat for gaseous nitrogen, which has a lower density than liquid hydrogen.