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    18 hours ago

    Vacuum the lifting gas out of the giant balloon into some storage tanks to compress it and use some smaller balloons as a tiny giant airship to transport the apparatus back?

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      You need the lifting gas to fill out the envelope and maintain structural integrity, a floppy envelope isn’t amazing at control