In 2014, photographer Melvin Sokolsky returned to his iconic Bubble series from 50 years before, but this time with Jennifer Aniston in the bubble.

Could we make a vacuum balloon of out this acrylic bubble? If it’s sealed airtight, it might be strong enough to contain a vacuum without imploding, thus making it several pounds lighter than when it has air inside. Make stable acrylic vacuum bubbles big enough, and they’ll float like balloons. We were so close to this future once…