Project Loon: The Technology

[medved]

 

[ElSupreme]

So my question is how is managing thousands of balloons floating around the world a cheaper/better solution than building mobile towers on the ground?

And also this matches up pretty well with todays xkcd.

http://xkcd.com/1226/

 

[dflye]

I'm sure it is just a matter of days until the AT&T Death Star is fully operational and can begin shooting these rebels out of the sky.

 

[Discoducky]

Very ambitious and very cool. Data at that distance is not cheap.

So my question is how is managing thousands of balloons floating around the world a cheaper/better solution than building mobile towers on the ground?

http://xkcd.com/1226/

Free power for life (sounds familiar), unencumbered by topography (mostly) and only people with money could put them out of commission

I'm sure it is just a matter of days until the AT&T Death Star is fully operational and can begin shooting these rebels out of the sky.

Yeah, like those guys...