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How do ships fly? (revisited)

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Daft Loon:
Some additional heavy air/chemical war thoughts.

The gas has an equilibrium reaction with both oxygen and water

-It reacts with oxygen at the top the pollution layer and releases it near ground level due to temperature/pressure changes, allowing the heavy air to be breathable

-It reacts with water leeching it out of the ground and turning large areas to desert, it releases the water to form clouds that can move due to changing reaction conditions not just with the wind

-The Chaladonian green fog is a catalyst or modifier for these reactions, releasing water back into the ground but also 'releasing' oxygen from the air into anything that can possibly rust

-Sometimes the water crystallizes out of the air to form implausibly massive ice structures in cold areas

HamsterIV:
I like the Heavier air hypothesis. My own theory is that the planet we fight on is not earth, and the atmospheric composition has much denser gasses. The native life forms of the planet would have evolved to breathe just fine in this pea soup atmosphere, but the lightest gasses like helium and hydrogen would have to displace far less atmosphere to get the enough buoyancy to lift one of the GOI air ships.

Swizy:
but heavy air thing wouldn't explain why balloons deflate to bottom. If we accept that it's a design flaw on muse side then maybe. But still "heavy air" would need to be very dense and have high pressure difference to lift anything. think of a stone underwater. alot of air is needed to lift it from the ground proportionally to its volume. So if we believe the wiki that states a pyra has a 300t mass it's only safe to assume that it would need a much bigger balloon to travel between gas layers. So i'll stick with anti gravity apparatus^^

Richard LeMoon:

--- Quote from: Swizy on September 19, 2016, 05:27:26 pm ---So i'll stick with anti gravity apparatus^^

--- End quote ---

Another vote for Flubber!

GurasOguras:
Chaladonians have their magic gas, right?

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