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RW M-drive?

I would say that people are getting a bit excited when talking about a device that has never been tested under properly controlled circumstance.

In any case, it's not possible to reach orbit at 0.1G with a balloon. It might theoretically be possible to fly into orbit if you had a plane with hypersonic lift-drag ratio of at least 10:1 and a hull refractory enough to survive that. That's a vehicle we can't build today (the space shuttle flies like a brick, and more streamlined vehicles don't have hulls that can take the heat), but isn't theoretically impossible.
 
Just for the record, I read the whole article, as I always do before pronouncing judgement. As mentioned earlier, whether it works or not, whether the theory is solid or flawed, it should be investigated fully by those qualified to do so. Academia these days seems to be full of nay sayers who pronounce judgement too quickly and too early and are thus acting as brakes on human productivity that need not be applied. All for the sake of their reputation, Darwin, Newton and Einstein, Copernicus, Galileo etc all were brave enough to publish and be damned and as a result changed our understanding of not just our world but our universe too.
 
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