Editing Talk:Rakuin no Monshou:Volume1 Chapter5 (section)

== Anti-gravity ships confusion: ==

Given that gravity is weaker the further you get from the planet, and ether flows from the sun, why does the text say 'Of course[...]the more it rises in altitude, the more the power to repel gravity loses its strength.'?  This doesn't seem to follow.  An explanation would be welcome.  *puzzlement*  -[[User:Multipartite|Multipartite]] ([[User talk:Multipartite|talk]]) 18:09, 21 August 2013 (CDT)
*The ether isn't created from sunlight alone, but formed upon a reaction once it hits and gets absorbed into the waters. You can think of it as mining for oil, where you first mine crude oil, and purify it to a point where it's usable and sell it. The sunlight here is the 'raw material' that can't be used until it hits the waters. Therefore, natural 'ether' emanates from the waters, which the higher the ship flys, the further it gets away from its source. But that is to say, I doubt they have a 'ether generator' that collects surrounding ether, just as they don't have solar panels on the ships to collect energy from the sun. It's more of, ether works more efficiently closer to the conditions it was created....probably :P. It might be better if the sentence was reworded a bit though, "He discovered that the mechanism involved a substance that poured down from the sun and vaporized into the sea, had an entirely different nature."  --[[User:Detalz|Detalz]] ([[User talk:Detalz|talk]]) 18:55, 21 August 2013 (CDT)
::Ahh, I see!  Thank you very much for the explanation!  I saw the part about vaporisation, but though it meant losing its properties.  Plausibly there's a lot of vaporised ether in the lower atmosphere (down to the ground) like clouds/mist, and like an airplane flying above the clouds trouble occurs if one climbs to less dense strata...  For the last sentence, perhaps "He discovered that the mechanism involved a substance that poured down from the sun and took an an entirely different nature when vaporized by the sea."? -[[User:Multipartite|Multipartite]] ([[User talk:Multipartite|talk]]) 15:15, 22 August 2013 (CDT)

:* Also, the impression I got from the raw is that more ether is needed to float in higher, which seems legit; which is why it loses in strength to repel the earth's gravity. Also I'm not entirely sure if the ether gets collected while it's in flight, or if it's collected beforehand and stored in replica-artefacts. I believe it's the latter. I'll look into the explanation again later and see if I can word it better. --[[User:Dohma|Dohma]] ([[User talk:Dohma|talk]]) 08:51, 23 August 2013 (CDT)