project loon
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The Incredible Calculations That Keep Google’s Project Loon Aloft
When we last checked in on circumnavigated the globe in a very quick 22 days. I just attended a talk at Google I/O and got some more info about some of the challenges the team faces in making this wild-arse project happen.
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A Brief History Of People Thinking Google’s Loon Balloons Are UFOs (Including Australia)
Some South African sheep got a nasty little surprise earlier this week when a Google-branded internet balloon came tumbling down from the heavens to say hello. The sheep are in good company though, because this happens — a lot. And fortunately for the conspiracy theorists among us, this means all the UFO fodder their chemtrail-addled…
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Google’s Flying Internet Balloons May Actually Be Feasible Next Year
The biggest secret on the internet is that most of the world still doesn’t have access to it. But while a year after launch there’s still the possibility Google’s Project Loon balloons may fall on you, it looks like they could actually be the most viable way to enable the 61 per cent of humans…
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What’s Actually Inside The Antennas Of Google’s Wild Internet Balloons
When Google first announced Project Loon, its plan to cover the world in a blanket of Wi-Fi using internet balloons, it was sort of hard to believe. It still is, but now Google’s taking us inside the antenna.