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

    between wireless connectivity and UFO sightings.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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    Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?