Timeline for Can airborne floating/flying islands be scientifically possible?
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| Aug 26, 2021 at 20:34 | comment | added | John | @BertHaddad yes but you need a lot of dust, like to much to fly planes through. One way you can solve the die off problem is use taller hollow tree like growths further in, that take over once a mat is established, I used something similar for water floating islands. but you won't have big islands ever storm that comes through were tear large ones to shreds. | |
| Aug 26, 2021 at 18:59 | comment | added | Bert Haddad | @John, so if the air had a lot of dust in it, this could provide the needed nutrients. | |
| Aug 4, 2021 at 2:46 | comment | added | John | your real porblem is without the minerals from soil you can't grow the plants. | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 18:22 | comment | added | Bert Haddad | @RealSubtle It doesn't really matter if they die, just as long as they still hold in the lifting gas. Biologically this might be tough, but just say that they degrade differently, or the outer plants hold in the gas from the inner ones. | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 9:41 | comment | added | Real Subtle | If these are separate plants grown into one mass, wouldn't the plants over which you built your castles or even just houses die for lack of sunshine to continue their photosynthesis? | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 19:55 | history | answered | Bert Haddad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |