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title: How We Can Fly on Absolutely Nothing — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-we-can-fly-on-absolutely-nothing/
date: 2013-01-28
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# How We Can Fly on Absolutely Nothing

So how do you fly on nothing, nothing at all? Turns out the most buoyant thing you can put in a container is nothing, absolutely nothing. A vacuum! So a vacuum balloon would be more buoyant than either a hydrogen or a helium balloon!So why haven’t we made one yet? Well it turns out that making large light vacuum containers is technically very challenging.