Hermione Wrote:
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> Hans_lune Wrote:
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>
> ...
>
> > The problem was that balloons of a size to
> carry
> > an average 2.5 ton rock to x altitude would be
> all
> > but uncontrollable in even a light wind. At
> Giza
> > you get gusty winds of the Sahara. Same problem
> > with kites. Notably no one used balloons or
> kites
> > to try and construct stuff (there may have been
> at
> > some time a one off in a very limited ways but
> I
> > cannot recall any - they certainly weren't used
> > for any protracted construction) in any age.
> > Balloon or kite versus wind? = Disaster as the
> age
> > of airships showed.
>
> IIRC, Creighton's theory met with no wide
> acceptance ...


...yeah I wonder why, lol