Keith Willshaw wrote:
Whilst hating to appear to support anything the Guthbot posts
I feel it necessary to point out that this is a red herring. As
long as you equalise pressures inside and outside the envelope
there is no reason for the shell to be any heavier than for a
terrestial airship.


Dittos... and the higher the atmospheric pressure, the greater the
difference of the density of the gas inside the envelope and outside of
it on said airship will work to generate increased lift, in much the
same way that fish swim bladders make up only a small part of their
overall volume, yet the huge difference in density between air and
seawater brings them to neutral buoyancy.
Anyway, you are now trying to argue logic with a certifiable paranoid
schizophrenic, which is inevitably a losing game.
This guy, not to put too fine of a point on it, is completely off of his
little Venusian rocker.
He needs a lithium chew-bar around the size of a brick. :-D
If I may paraphrase my father's words of wisdom: "Beauty is only skin
deep, but crazy goes right to the bone."
....and here's the ZMC-2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMC-2 not that
it's going to tolerate 800 F. or sulphuric acid rain at all well.

Pat