skelet0r
Premium
join:2004-04-26
Florence, AL | look out below
Yeah, until one of them explodes a la Hindenburg, and leaves a land mass the size of Texas without broadband. |
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grcore
New and Improved
join:2003-12-06
usa | Gives a new meaning to "The network is Down"
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NoOneButMe
join:2001-08-24
TX | lol |
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LagAndFrag
join:2003-02-05
West Branch, MI
| reply to skelet0r
Re: look out below
GlobeTel foresees a fleet of helium-filled "stratellites," each able to stay aloft for months at a time and automatically held on station by electric motors powered by batteries charged by solar cells.
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Short of a battery popping a top. There is nothing to explode.
Sorry to burst your bubble Chicken Little. |
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BonezX
Basement Dweller
Premium
join:2004-04-13
Canada | might land on a gas station causing a spark igniting the fuel.
but that's allmost too random. |
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ced06
join:2004-03-12
Towanda, PA | reply to skelet0r
If you're not being sarcastic: Helium won't explode. |
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netmasta
join:2004-06-06
Randolph, MA | Gives new meaning to "High Speed"
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st4t1c
Nihilist.
Premium
join:2004-10-03
Boulder Creek, CA
 ·Comcast
| Other concerns.
I'd be more afraid of one of these things going screwy and stearing itself into some urban area. There is not some 24/7 maytag man chilling in it.
However, being a giant ballon I don't see very much damage being caused when they do go down, lol. |
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DHRacer
Fire Survivor
join:2000-10-10
Lake Arrowhead, CA | reply to NoOneButMe
Re: Gives a new meaning to "The network is Down"
Why not just call it BlimpBand... |
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BodyBumper
join:2004-06-21
Beverly Hills, CA | reply to ced06
Re: look out below
but I'm quite sure the tons of equipment on it will come down on someone's house or apartment intact unlike a satellite which will burn upon reentery.
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rawgerz
In Debt we trust
Premium
join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| the 'peter pan' broadband
I'm pretty sure they are not going to fill it with 100% helium after the Hindenburgh.. and being 13 miles in the sky i dont see it "crashing" either the biggest challenge i can see is trying to keep this thing from floating miles away
and still 26 miles round trip its gonna make for some +300ms pings I'm sure.. and that doesn't appeal to me
this might be the beginning of sky advertising (if they changed it to a lower altitude)..i really dont want to see "Do the Dew!" in the sky at night |
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jmn1207
Premium
join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| said by rawgerz  :I'm pretty sure they are not going to fill it with 100% helium after the Hindenburgh.. and being 13 miles in the sky i dont see it "crashing" either the biggest challenge i can see is trying to keep this thing from floating miles away and still 26 miles round trip its gonna make for some +300ms pings I'm sure.. and that doesn't appeal to me this might be the beginning of sky advertising (if they changed it to a lower altitude)..i really dont want to see "Do the Dew!" in the sky at night The Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen. Helium is not combustible. |
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
Premium
join:2004-01-06
Sweden
·Verizon FIOS
·Optimum Online
| reply to rawgerz
said by rawgerz :I'm pretty sure they are not going to fill it with 100% helium after the Hindenburgh.. and being 13 miles in the sky i dont see it "crashing" either the biggest challenge i can see is trying to keep this thing from floating miles away and still 26 miles round trip its gonna make for some +300ms pings I'm sure.. and that doesn't appeal to me this might be the beginning of sky advertising (if they changed it to a lower altitude)..i really dont want to see "Do the Dew!" in the sky at night It's not meant to be a low latency service. The entire point of it is to provide broadband across the entire country, so ANYONE can get it. If you are in an urban area chances are you'll be getting fiber from your local telco within the next 5 years. This service will provide 15, 30, 100 mbit for dirt cheap prices.... Just give it a chance, a broadband revolution is on the horizon.
-Tzale
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Duh
@fuse.net
| reply to BodyBumper
Re: look out below
Because I'm sure they just let it randomly crash to ground and don't have any plans set up for guiding it to some sort of empty area. Scientists and engineers are such idiots, sending up this blimp with no plans and just hoping and hoping it doesn't just drift away or crash. |
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pcscdma
Chocobo Chocobo Random Battle
Premium
join:2004-01-14
Winterset, IA
clubs: | reply to rawgerz
Re: the 'peter pan' broadband
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster |
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ctceo
Premium
join:2001-04-26
South Bend, IN
clubs:
 ·magicjack.com
·AT&T U-Verse
·Comcast
·AT&T Midwest
 ·HughesNet Satellit..
| Parachute
Even if they did crash, they would probably be equipped with some sort of descent control device, say maybe a backup gyro-copter with a parachute attached. so that if it did begin to fall the balloon shell would collapse somewhere, and cause very little destruction, and probably have good warning if it did., and the Main weight could eject, and begin a RC landing. using the Gyro & Parachute.
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pooker314
join:2005-04-12
Brush Prairie, WA
| reply to rawgerz
Re: the 'peter pan' broadband
said by rawgerz :and still 26 miles round trip its gonna make for some +300ms pings I'm sure.. I would be very surprised if any noticable latency resulted from the distance alone. I use Starband (satellite) and the round trip there is close to 100,000 miles and pings are often around 700-1000ms. 26 miles should be negligible. |
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jazzy112
join:2003-12-05
Fargo, ND
| reply to rawgerz
Actually, I have a 44 mile round trip on my system and it's only 7ms. I believe if they cover texas with one blimp then they might have some overusage latency. However from what I have read before, the latency should be right in line with other technologies.
Nothing wireless will ever be able to compete with fiber. Same goes with BPL, fiber will still kick it's ass. So it's not really fair to compare any technology with fiber. Fiber is meant for high bandwidth and is the only true internet medium out there. All the others are abortions put together just well enough so they will do the job. |
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pcscdma
Chocobo Chocobo Random Battle
Premium
join:2004-01-14
Winterset, IA
clubs:
| reply to rawgerz
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sp···e+Search
it says -
the speed of light = 186.282397 miles per millisecond
It's at least a 52 mile round trip for anything. It goes from customer premises to the blimp - blimp to ground network operation center with Interweb connection - comes back to the NOC - the NOC beams it back to the blimp - the blimp beams it to the customer premises.
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averagedude
join:2002-01-30
Mesa, AZ | reply to ctceo
Re: Parachute
What do they do about it falling through the commercial airline traffic?
What happens when a jet airliner hits when the blimp fails?
Would think that it would be equipped with some kind of emergency beacon. |
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