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This pic is from the top of the page from the "drag (friction)" Wikipedia. If I can interpret it to mean that 90% of the total drag on a streamlined body is due to skin friction (since form drag has been minimized), then I think it would be interesting to see what would happen if this concept...

well, if you bring it to an earth-sized planet with no atmostphere*

if it was air in a 1 metre cube balloon, it would appear to be of no/low weight on Earth because it's surrounded by air. if you bring that same balloon to the moon, you will feel the weight. consider that mass and weight are not used the same way and have different definitions

I'm not physicist either, but from what I hear, climate modeling remains very difficult to use in order to have guaranteed predictive capabilities. Also, I know supercomputers tend to be involved in climate modeling, and considering all the factors you're trying to work with, I would guess a...