Andrée and his hydrogen ball
1) Why polar expansionist choose hydrogen balloon, what cannot be refilled?
Salomon August Andrée (1854-1894) and his famous balloon expedition to the North Pole are well-known because that journey failed, and that caused the death to Andrée and his three mates. The reason for death was the wrong equipment. And in the main role of that catastrophe was the hydrogen balloon. The name of that balloon flyer has caused the question that is the idea of the expedition might come from some Frenchmen, but what was the reason, that those people would want to give an idea of that fly?
I have written much about this attempt and the main thing was the reason, why Andrée chose a hydrogen balloon, which was unable to refill in the arctic conditions. If Andrée would use a hot-air balloon or even picked the backup balloon with him, that journey could be successful. Or it had even changed to success. Without a backup balloon, where was able to use moss or branch as the fuel, that journey could be successful.
2) How Andrée though that he could return?
So the question is "how Andrée though to get back"? And why Andrée made that mistake and choose so unsuitable equipment in the primary role? Did he wait for some kind of help in the northern area? When we are thinking about the hydrogen balloon, that kind of equipment is very dangerous, because hydrogen would cause an explosion, and the second thing is that the hydrogen balloon would rise extremely high.
And in 30 kilometers people would die if they would not have pressure suits and respirators. Hydrogen balloons can rise even higher, and if a person would go too high, the body liquids start to boil, or the person dies in lack of oxygen. Also, there is a big danger of brain damage. So if the pilot wants to lay the balloon down, that person must open the ventile at the top of the balloon, and then let the gas go, and the thing is that without the replacing gas, there is no way to make the balloon rise again.
3) The balloon can be used to capture cosmic radiation
When we are thinking about the structure of the balloon, we might make some kind of fantasies about that journey. There were two controlling ropes under that balloon, and there has been introduced the idea that the balloon was equipped with two control ropes. And there have been introduced theories that the idea of Andrée was to load the balloon with electricity by using northern lights and then that electricity would be conducted to the ground by using those ropes.
The thing is that at the poles the cosmic rays would come near the ground and that kind of thing is making the poles important things for scientific purposes. The balloon can be used to capture the particles of the cosmic radiation if it flies extremely high. The metal net around the balloon would turn magnetic, and then the particles, that are coming from the universe can be captured in that structure. Those ions can be analyzed by using the spectrometer.
4) Hydrogen balloons can be used to collect the antimatter
There is one very interesting detail in Andrée's balloon. The small canvas square in the outer layer could be the thin aluminum plate, which is covered by using gold. So could that thing cause that the cosmic radiation would create the antimatter in the balloon, and the modern systems use that kind of thing? But its mystery did Andrée know that kind of thing.
The modern balloons are made by using mylar, which allows them to fly higher than the balloon of Andrée. Those balloons can be used to collect the cosmic radiation and antimatter from the stratosphere. The perfectly ball-shaped mylar ball could send to the upper atmosphere, and the mission of those things would be to act as the antimatter collector. If the balloon would be covered by electrolytic gold, that system can collect the antimatter from the skies.
If there is an extremely thin gold plate in the balloon, there is a possibility that the balloons can be used to collect antimatter from the layer, where the cosmic radiation faces the atmosphere. That antimatter can be used for scientific and other tests.
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