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Weather Balloons & Wireless

Posted by Hemos on from the what-a-wonderful-world dept.

mansa writes "Over at CNN they have an article about a company that wants to expand wireless coverge with weather balloons! I hope it's not just a bunch of hot air! "

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  1. Damn by dalassa · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I hope it's not just a bunch or hot air!"

    Damn there goes my +5 funny.

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  2. I predict a correlation... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    between wireless connectivity and UFO sightings.

  3. Possible MIB2 Scene... by $carab · · Score: 5, Funny

    But Space Data says its plan to create America's first floating wireless network -- by putting disposable transmitters on government weather balloons.

    Hick Farmer: "I just saw an UFO! It went over yonder trees!"
    [Bright Flash]
    Agent K: That was not a UFO you saw...it was a Government Weather Balloon designed to provide you with low cost, speedy, nationwide wireless access.

  4. Wireless balloons? by Flakeloaf · · Score: 4, Funny

    As opposed to all of those *wired* balloons floating around out there, entangling birds and electrocuting poor innocent workers during lightning storms.

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  5. This post made via cell phone by Procrasturbator · · Score: 2, Funny

    -eption re-ly -n't that impor-t. -mean, who -ation. An- -o needs that so-t of pre-ure -nyway? -ad idea a- -e way.

  6. The question is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What is really cheaper?
    Sending up weather balloons to cover large rural areas rather than putting up towers?

    To answer this question, we have to look deeply into the psychie of the average rural-area yokel. Does he prefer shooting up towers with buckshot or shooting down balloons with a high-caliber rifle. Which is more economic for the redneck? Will ammunition sales at WalMart effect this decision.

    Is it cheaper for the phone companies to patch holes in balloons or replate a tower.

    I didn't see any mention of this in their story. One can only hope that they took this into account.