The Null Ship
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In this episode of the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast, Robert and Joe discuss the history and principles of the vacuum airship or null ship. Will futuristic materials ever make this 17th century concept possible?
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| 1:37.4 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam, and I'm Joe McCormick. |
| 1:51.7 | In today's episode, we're going to be looking at a spectacular bit of hypothetical air travel that has intrigued us for centuries. |
| 2:00.6 | The vacuum airship, or null ship, as I've seen it referred, and that's such a cool name for something that I think I had to front-load it on this episode, but usually it's just referred to as a vacuum airship. |
| 2:13.4 | And the basic principle, as we'll discuss, is pretty simple. Hydrogen, helium, or hot air-filled balloons allow an airship to traverse the skies because these gases are lighter than the surrounding air. |
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