• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    You did the basic math, with your spherical balloon. What about giant cylinders? Then you could really pack it in.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Sure. You could do a cylinder of three quarters of a meter across which seems like a reasonable footprint for someone to stand in. That’d only have to be, uh, 325.5 meters tall to have the same volume.

    • You could use spherical balloons with really long, but different length, strings for each person. Of course you’d have to avoid tangling your balloons together while walking around like that and given wind can vary with elevation…