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Re:Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight by curtis on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @02:19PM (#12354096)
Neon is actually less dense than Nitrogen. According to Wikipedia:

  Nitrogen..Density at stp (0 °C and 101.325 kPa) : 1.251 g/L
  Neon......Density at stp (0 °C and 101.325 kPa) : 0.9002 g/L
Nitrogen has a lower atomic number than Neon, but on the other hand Nitrogen is diatomic, which I imagine accounts for the greater density.

Neon is insanely expensive however.

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Re:Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight by chiph on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @03:19PM (#12354524)
But just imagine if you ran some high-voltage current through it..
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Re:Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight by tim333 on Thursday August 25, 2016 @10:49AM (#12359417)
Yeah lightning strikes could look cool.
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