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[Zeitgeist] Hot Air Balloons and Kites
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<blockquote data-quote="efreund" data-source="post: 7464133" data-attributes="member: 6799797"><p>How I imagine things working in the Zeit-verse is that air is now considerably less-viscous (or "thinner" or "softer") and thus can't be used to hold large creatures aloft. Also, there's never any heavy windstorms or hurricanes. So it would be difficult to find conditions that are apt for kite flying, and thus the hobby of kite flying probably never took off. (And even if someone were to invent kites, they'd be frustrating and under-performing.)</p><p></p><p>Hot air balloons are a different topic. (And I just went on my first RL hot air balloon ride this weekend, which is why I clicked on your thread!) Remember that hot air balloons have no way of steering: the only "controls" you have on a hot air balloon is that they can use a burner to rise slowly, they can drop a sandbag to rise quickly, and if they leave the burner off, they descend slowly. And you can open a flap on the side to let out air in order to <em>rotate</em>, but not to <em>propel</em>.</p><p></p><p>Hot air balloon rely on wind in order to get from place to place. There is a nominal amount of control a hot air balloon operator has due to the fact that different air currents go at different speeds and different directions at different altitudes, so by rising or falling into the right jet stream, they can kindof influence the direction that they're going. (In order to figure out whether they should rise or descend, balloonists will drop a small air-inflated balloon, and watch which way it falls, or look at birds above them, and make a guess as to what's going on up there.) Also note that prevailing wind directions often change at sunrise and sunset, which naturally sets up certain balloon "routes."</p><p></p><p>But the Ziggurat of Avilona is surrounded by all sorts of violent winds. It sounds like it would tear such a clumsy and delicate thing as a hot air balloon apart.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, food for thought.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="efreund, post: 7464133, member: 6799797"] How I imagine things working in the Zeit-verse is that air is now considerably less-viscous (or "thinner" or "softer") and thus can't be used to hold large creatures aloft. Also, there's never any heavy windstorms or hurricanes. So it would be difficult to find conditions that are apt for kite flying, and thus the hobby of kite flying probably never took off. (And even if someone were to invent kites, they'd be frustrating and under-performing.) Hot air balloons are a different topic. (And I just went on my first RL hot air balloon ride this weekend, which is why I clicked on your thread!) Remember that hot air balloons have no way of steering: the only "controls" you have on a hot air balloon is that they can use a burner to rise slowly, they can drop a sandbag to rise quickly, and if they leave the burner off, they descend slowly. And you can open a flap on the side to let out air in order to [I]rotate[/I], but not to [I]propel[/I]. Hot air balloon rely on wind in order to get from place to place. There is a nominal amount of control a hot air balloon operator has due to the fact that different air currents go at different speeds and different directions at different altitudes, so by rising or falling into the right jet stream, they can kindof influence the direction that they're going. (In order to figure out whether they should rise or descend, balloonists will drop a small air-inflated balloon, and watch which way it falls, or look at birds above them, and make a guess as to what's going on up there.) Also note that prevailing wind directions often change at sunrise and sunset, which naturally sets up certain balloon "routes." But the Ziggurat of Avilona is surrounded by all sorts of violent winds. It sounds like it would tear such a clumsy and delicate thing as a hot air balloon apart. Anyway, food for thought. [/QUOTE]
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