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It's a neat idea but I'm not sure the materials science is there. Right now out best balloon material leaks a fair amount of helium over time. Then there's trying to make a ship that's large enough to carry enough helium to float itself up there then rigid enough to survive the extreme velocities to fly up. Seems like there's a huge gap there that might just not be possible to cross.


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