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Comments on news posted 2014-06-20 14:23:43: One of the broadband balloons used by Google for the company's Loon initiative caused a bit of a ruckus in New Zealand recently when locals mistook the balloon for a crashing plane. ..


nekkidtruth
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nekkidtruth

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Uh...

I'm confused. It looks absolutely nothing like a plane at all...

tshirt
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tshirt

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"Oh, the humanity!"

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FizzyMyNizzy
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FizzyMyNizzy

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»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· sWSVRrmo

liddon
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liddon

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Loon initiative

What if they aren't used as balloons, but positioned through out a region's high points? Would Google then have an competitive high speed fixed wireless network that could be scalable over wider areas?