Horror

Fucking horse in the background 💀
- No, it's just a water-walking horse.
  
  A Balloon Supported Water Walking Horse...BSWWH for short. Pronounced bsh!

We do have the technology for this... right?
- Absolutely, but the scale of the balloons is a bit off. Nobody would be walking shoulder to shoulder like this. For a normal-ish 170lb/77kg individual your personal balloon would have to be a little under 6.5 meters across assuming it were filled with helium.
  Yes, I did the math.
  
  You did the basic math, with your spherical balloon. What about giant cylinders? Then you could really pack it in.
  
  You could use hydrogen, which is less dense than helium. Then if it catches on fire like the Hindenburg you’d already be in the water.
  
  Note that you wouldn't need 77 kg worth of bouyancy from the balloon. The shoes would provide some lift, more if you made them out of some type of foam.
  
  What if the balloon was rigid and filled with vacuum?
  
  We thank you balloon master!
  
  What if the balloons were long and vertical like the ones in Dune? That could allow them to walk closer to one another.
  
  Ok but hear me out
  One really BIG balloon with rope systems you could hook on to so multiple people could walk around under the same balloon area.
  
  Hope that lake doesn't have any breezes or gusts.
  ... Also, assuming you just did the calc for neutralizing the weight of said person...
  Even if there was no wind... they could not walk.
  Walking requires weight to work.
  A surface you can push off of.
  It seems like the picture shows one guy with walking sticks, which I guess might kinda work if the lake is less than about 2 or 3 feet, or under a meter deep... not too many lakes like that.
  Maybe something like stilts... or ... huge snowshoe/flipper type things... might work?
- Hot air balloon pilot here: We do, indeed.
  This is a "Cloudhopper". It's a hot air balloon with no basket: The pilot straps a propane tank to his back and wears a climbing harness. As you can see, the pilot is, effectively, walking on water with the assistance of the balloon.
  Cloudhoppers are about 20,000 to 35,000 cubic feet, 40-50 feet in diameter. They are about 1/3 to 1/2 the size of most of the balloons you might see at a fair or festival.
  
  This is the coolest shit I’ve seen all month. Just when you think the world is running out of interesting ideas, you come across something like this and realize you will never see it all.
  
  Already nightmare fuel even with just the basket. But THAT is just foolishness. Pardon my language.
  
  The pilot straps a propane tank to his back
  And if you're willing to do that you're sent to nearest psychiatrist, right?
- There's an episode of Nathan For You where he uses giant balloons to help someone who weighed too much to ride a horse normally. Great show
- Windsurfing? 🏄‍♀️
  
  Or kitesurfing

The two Jesuses in the background don't have balloons!
- They're on a carriage that's like pontooned at the bottom, being pulled by the horse and driver who each have their own balloons.
  edit oh wait d'you mean the ones in the back right my bad dk about them
  
  Back right?
  I see two in the back left and two more in the back middle without balloons. The two in the back right are the carriage passengers.

Forget the balloons. I want that water treadmill unicycle!
- millicycle
- When you have the chance to ride a water horse? Forget it.
- I'm pretty sure they actually exist
  
  I've seen bicycle paddle boats; where can I find a unicycle paddle boat?

I'm glad we got ubiquitous smartphones instead of only rich people having flying cars.
Still, I'm promoting way, way more punk in our cyberpunk.
- The rich do have flying cars. They just call them private jets. The rich own mansions (huge houses) all over the world, private islands, mega yachts that contain smaller yachts, their own submarines, and now they even have their own rocket ships
  
  Yeah, but the police don't hover over us in Spinners as in Bladerunner. They still have to chopper from helipad to airport and ride off in air traffic, so less in our faces.
  Their superfluous greenhouse emissions fit the cyberpunk vibe though.

We got much better things though.
- Requires disposable income :(
  
  Balloons and watercycles wouldn't?

They were very into helium and balloons

I love that the balloons are far too small. Like they didn't understand the elements and buoyancy well enough to know the balloons have to be much larger. Not like we have negative mass particles.
- Obviously they were assuming balloons were filled with supervacuum. We have had 100 years and not invented even that.
  Truly we have failed our ancestors.
  
  Super vacuum! That will do it.
- Well, I guess they figured it'd take another 100 years to calculate that correctly, so they just winged it for the picture.
- I'm pretty sure scientists back then could have told you that these balloons are too small. The person(s) who drew that picture most likely wasn't a scientist, which is why it looks how it looks.
  
  Maybe they thought we'd have discovered/created new elements by now that could do this.
- I want to see how that cane works.
- Superheated hydrogen in a monomolecular unbreakable balloon.
  
  The theoretical best lift from a balloon that size is about 1 kg I would estimate
- What measure of scientic accuracy do you expect from a chocolate wrapper?
  
  I did not know this was on a candy wrapper...
  That does make it better.
- I like the fact that a horse and boat thing has the same size balloon as a person.
- That it they were positive the future would, uhm, find a way.

Not sure how they are walking and not just splashing in place.
- And you don't have an issue with the carriage, with three people on it, where the only balloon is on the horse?
  Whoever made this was an artist and sucked at physics
  
  The carriage could be on a barge and is just being pulled by the horse. How is the horse getting traction? And why is that man using a cane on water! The small balloons could just be artistic license for the drawing.
- If we had spent the time working on the real problems, this would have already been solved.
- I'd be ok with splashing. I want this!
  Edit: Perhaps the shoes have keels or fins at the bottom and they use a skating-like motion to move around.
  
  Somehow that weird paddle cycle is bouyant without a balloon.

I feel ripped off yet again!

Literally just build a bridge, you hyper-individualistic consumer-centric assholes.
- I think the idea here is people want to go out and enjoy the day. Not just walk across a bridge. Next time think before you comment. You sound rarted as fuck
  
  Oh no, the Groypers are here.
  
  rarted? If you're going to insult someone at least spell check yourself, lmfao.

I do like how it has the sensibilities at the time. Being super dangerous to anyone who uses it.

"Deutscher Kakao" 🤡
"German cocoa"
- ah so german cacao is the red bull of the 1900s, it gives you wings.
  
  Funny that you say that, they actually sold "Scho-Ka-Kola" (Cho-Ca-Cola) from 1935, which was chocolate with coffein.

They just thought they'd do everything they did back then, but on water? And with mini blimps?
- Fuck being able to buy a house or afford rent, people need mini blimps! (Right, it's not just me?)
- They just thought they'd do everything they did back then, but with balloons. They could already walk on water back then.

There are two people water-walking without balloons behind the two women on the left. Time travelers? Aliens? The JFK assassins? We deserve the truth!

I actually went to that timeline! And its more complex than you think because well yes, there technology is far cooler and more whimsical, abd yes there world is more socialistic, has more free time, better prices and less of a late stage capitalism nightmare....
But you should just see how many racial slurs those people used just this morning and half of those women cant vote and have polio.
Also I am pretty sure left-handed people got hunted to extinction for some reason
Timeline hopping is a mixed bag
- I understand why you didn't stay in that one, but why the hell would you come back to this timeline??
  
  Well I went to a timeline where Reddit managed to organize a nuclear attack against Russia and it backfired HARD, a timeline where we never moved on from the 90s which sounds awesome and it was but the uncriticized ultra-consumption of those times eventually laid waste to the world, a world where JK Rowling succeded at making TERFs the mainstream feminism wave, a timeline where X is the ONLY major website left in the world and its as awful as it sounds, a timeline where being a CIS man was illegal, a timeline where Musk is president, a timeline where pernanently horny sentient sex-robots rule over humanity and a timeline where the soviet union defeated the United States during the cold war so "President" Putin is the most powerful man in the world.
  So yeah...I think there is a problem with my dimensional hopper, it only sends me to "dark" timelines
  
  Back? They're just passing through
- Lol yeah!

Now I'm wondering why we don't attach giant balloons to ships to reduce water resistance by cutting down how much of the ship needs to be underwater. Perhaps it's because you would need more size for the balloon, and maybe the air resistance and water resistance needs to even out due to physical laws that I'm too lazy to think about?
- The boat already floats. What is the point of making it lighter? Boats are handy for transporting extreme weights because water weighs more than air.
  If it should fly then get a Zepplin
- Any amount of water contact introduces a fair amount of drag. There may be an ideal point somewhere in the middle, but I think if you take this to it's natural conclusion you get a zeppelin.
  I did a little bit of math and I think that to lift the payload capacity (including fuel and crew) of a modern day Panama canal ship you would need about a tenth of the peak U.S. helium reserve (a cube about half a kilometer long on each edge, about 1.3x longer than the long dimension of the ship)
  I don't think you'd get the best fuel efficiency going upwind lol
  Anything smaller would come with proportionally less downsides and at least proportionally less benefits. I doubt it could ever be a net positive in any useful metric.
  
  Hydrogen for sure. Partial lift for a boat has a lot of applications. Much more cargo than an airship, with no complications in flying empty. A fairly flat triangular "balloon" can be used as a solar platform, a sail, and be put in neutral wind mode down to the deck.
- attach giant balloons to ships
- Sounds like you're vaguely describing a ground effect vehicle, basically a plane which coasts along the water. They're more efficient than actually flying due to exploiting the ground effect on the lift surfaces, but ultimately it's closer to a plane than a boat

I meam, we did get water skiing and stuff like that.

So, they did predict the water rising.

Or what an AI in the 2020s thought people in the 1900s would think life would be like in the year 2000
Edit: I know it's not AI, it just looked like it. Chill.
- This one isn't AI, I remember seeing this image on the internet 10 years ago.
  
  in that case people in the 1900s were very good at predicting what AI images would look like
- I doubt AI can replicate that German calligraphy
  
  could've been added afterwards