gwern comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 10 May 2013 04:30:54PM 0 points [-]

The sense that a hot-air balloon can be seen as an approach to landing on the Moon.

How can a hot air balloon even in theory be seen as that? Hot air has a specific limit, does it not - where its density equals the outside density?