re boom whoosh david fuzzy wells wdwells nyx cs du edu wrote i love the idea of an inflatable mile long sign it will be a really neat thing to see it explode when a bolt or even better a westford needle comes crashing into it at clicks a sec boom whooooooooshhhhhh sputter sputter okay pretend it would make a sound just a thought let s pretend it is inflated and pressurized wouldn t there be a large static electricity build up around the puncture if the metalization is behind a clear sandwich ie insulated then the deflating balloon would generate electrical interference noise by the way any serious high velocity impact would simply cut a bugs bunny hole through the wall highly unlikely to boom and the fabric would almost certainly be ripstop regards robin kenny a private and personal opinion not in any way endorsed authorised or known by my employers what the heck would i know about space i m stuck at the bottom of this huge gravity well
