When I was a young boy, there was a short animation that appeared every Christmas called "The Snow Man". It was about a snow man that had the ability to fly and make anyone fly with him just by holding his hands. It was beautiful because the animation combined beautiful music, singing and sounds with outstanding hand animation.
After the leadership challenge yesterday over the handling of brexit, I could do with a showman friend to fly me away. I am sick of hearing about brexit on the news and the cabinet changing staff over brexit and related issues. I have never in life seen a government go though so much staff. It must be like a WW1 trench in the front bench in the UK parliament.
I seriously thought about it.... (Silly man I can be)
There are many ways to fly in this world without using much energy. One way is to reduce your net weight by trapping gases that are lighter than air such as Helium or Hydrogen.
There is one way that I thought of myself. Making crystals from carbon allotropes that are hollow and contain no air at all. At the moment this is impossible because the material that houses the vacuum needs to be thick to resist the forces of air pressure and this makes them heavier than air. But if you could use the strength of Graphene molecules in a clever way then you could make a light weight material that can harbour a vacuum. This material would float in air and take me away from this crazy world for a short while, perhaps drag a small village up there, above the clouds. Compressed air would be used as ballast to bring the village down when needed.
Dream dream dream.
