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teraflop on June 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s Balloon Internet Experiment, One Year Lat...

The balloons only have so much buoyancy, and 60,000 feet of cable would end up being pretty heavy. Not to mention that the cables would be a hazard to aircraft navigation.

juice13 on June 30, 2014 | [–]

And people could steal the equipment by pulling the baloon down.

computer on July 1, 2014 | [–]

You could always make the cable out of balloons. But I guess that would be rather expensive.

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