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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! "
Hey, I have had enough of this shit! I wanna kill you! You fuckers think you are really special posting all of this shit, huh?! I'm gonna pummel you with my fists of fury!! You fuckin' unemployed virgins! If I knew where you live I would probaly get down on my knees and clean out your asshole with my tongue. Then make sweet love to your wonderful cock and balls! Thank you. May god bless you with a massive hard-on.
-- mass mounds of mctasty manchowder
Re:This little ghostse
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stop torturing my piece
3rd post?
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Anonymous Coward
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Good Job snagging the 3rd post. Tha my frined is one hard duty to achrive let me the first to welcome you the 3rd post clan...
Your one hell of a person my friend
-- *huh* Sig? WTF?
Viscera.
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Oh, trotsky was my favorite commie, yes he was! Singing songs to praise the mudderland and the hammer and sickle. Drinking milk and popping and young lasses cherry! Old man trostky, was my favorite commie, yes he was!
-- mass mounds of mctasty manchowder
Weather balloons
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Lientz was bad. I spanked him. He was bad so I took him over my knee, a 43 year old man, and I spanked him until he could stand no more. I did not enjoy it. 'Twas for his own good. A path to self-destruction he was headed on. I shall spank him in the future if the need arises again. 'Tis the only way.
Hey, I'd like a dog to suck MY BALLS for a change. Sometimes I just feel used by the canine community here in San Jacinto for their own perverted needs. I'm just so unappreciated. I bet if I just stopped coming to the alley and servicing them all day they would miss me. It just really get's me down. It's so much of a drag, dude.
-- mass mounds of mctasty manchowder
FP reclaimed for the righteous
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mobydill
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When I worked at Verio I asked what the name meant. I was actually referred to a guy in the company who has the job title as "Verio Evangelist"(is the truth) his job was to go around making us feel good about the company. Though he didnt know a server from his elbow.
Anyway, he told me that the name really didn't mean anything but I should tell customers that Verio was an empty vessel that could be 'filled' with anything the customer chose.
What a crock of corporate bullshit.
So much with the whats in a name. Shakespeare was allowed poetic license. Corporate flunkies not...
Puto
-- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Re:Too bad...
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Anonymous Coward
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The phone number is dialed but the equipment issues no ring... customer dialing himself on another line picks up the phone and establishes the connection.
Disgruntled customer then dials Customer Support.
Verizon: How may I provide you with outstanding service?
Customer: You can't. It's impossible. My number is 111-222-3333 and would you please tell the flea bitten fuse changer to check mine? My ring signal is not present YET AGAIN.
Re:Too bad...
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Doesn't it make you feel good that this homosexual politically correct schmuck is making more money than you?
Re:Too bad...
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It means the same thing Kodak does.
(They're both made up.)
Possible MIB2 Scene...
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$carab
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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.
If only erica would finally listen to reason. She would understand that she doesn't need to do that anymore. It's dirty, it's beneath her and every time she does it, it takes part of her soul that she can't get back. I got her a good job at the laundromaut. Two weeks is all it took and she left and fell back to her evil ways. I'm at the end of my rope. I don't know what else to do. I've spent so much time crying, I don't think I could possibly have many tears left. How could you do this to her? HOW COULD YOU! It makes me angry when I think of how you lied to us and we believed it. We all went with what you said like sheep to the slaughterhouse. I have wept for your soul and her's with no time for weeping for my own. There only so much one man can do but I believe I have the strength to do one last thing and that is too bring you to justice, sir.
-- mass mounds of mctasty manchowder
Re:Possible MIB2 Scene...
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Re:Possible MIB2 Scene...
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I know it was a joke, but fyi, all the ufo sighting reports by farmers are filed only so they can get insurance money after their cows die from illness.
Re:Possible MIB2 Scene...
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Anonymous Coward
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Really? I didn't know that insurance companies covered death-by-extraterrestrial-bovine-death-ray in their normal policies...
They must have some insurance. Does it cover them against fraud as well?
We've gone out for dinner on a weeknight... a nice restaurant, soft candles, music in the background and such. There aren't too many people there with us and we have a corner table to ourselves. You're looking lovely in one of your short skirts and a nice blouse, and you know it - you've been teasing me all night and it's driving me crazy - leaning forward to let me see your beautiful tits down your top, or spreading your legs enough to show you're freshly shaven and not wearing any panties. Finally I can't take it any more. I reach over, grab your head and pull you to my face; kissing you deeply before you can protest, our tongues meeting and twisting between the two mouths. At the same time one of my hands reaches up to tease and massage those wonderful breasts, feeling the nipples harden beneath my palm. You moan a bit and then gasp as you feel my hand move down and start sliding up your legs, lifting the skirt as the cool air reaches your crotch... protesting that someone might see, but I tell you to shush...it's time to pay for your teasing.
I lift it up higher, pushing your legs apart as the fabric rides up to your hips... a few of the other people are watching by now, but no one says anything. I begin to massage your pussy while still kissing you - mostly just trailing my fingers over the lips, teasing your clit... not putting them in at all, but knowing that you're getting hotter. You're moaning a bit louder now, sitting with your legs splayed and everyone can see you're getting wet. I pull away from your face for a moment to take your clit between two fingers and pinch just a little as I tell you to open your blouse and show everyone your tits. Your breathing is in coming in gasps and pants by now... I pinch a little harder as you hesitate... then you reach up with shaking hands and unbutton your blouse, opening it slowly... rubbing and cupping your heaving breasts as you show them to the appreciative crowd. The nipples are obviously hard, and my mouth moves down to slowly lick across one as you moan again. "Good girl," I say, starting to rub your clit again as I suckle at a nipple for a moment... God, it's hard... and you're DRIPPING wet into my palm! It excites me so when you get like this.
Then I stand up and pull you to your own feet; telling you that you're still going to pay for teasing me. I turn you around and push gently on your shoulders to bend you over the table, lifting your skirt again as everyone gets a better view of your rear and the hot cleft between your legs. You look back over your shoulder, getting a little bit embarrassed again as you wonder what's next. Then I tell you to spread your legs so that your fans can see. You hesitate, then you feel the *SMACK* of my palm on your ass... a quick slap as you feel the heat of my hand. You moan again as you spread your feet slowly, still a little shy. Another *SMACK* as I say "Hurry..."
This time you comply... your legs shoulder width apart, still looking back as you're bent over the table... blushing in a mixture of pleasure and shame, with your ass pointed right at the crowd... two large red handprints still burning on your cheeks... you know that with your legs spread like this they can see your shaved lips, all swollen and dripping, and your own hand that has started working your nipple. I tell you you're not warm enough yet, as I continue to spank you - a slow rhythm, one butt cheek and then the other, letting you catch your breath for just a moment between each slap. You're getting wetter and hotter at the show you know everyone's getting, as well as with the punishment that you love.
Then my swats stop; you start to turn your head to look, but feel my hand pushing you back to the table as you hear me moving something behind you. Then you jump as you feel a slightly cold, thick liquid dripping onto your asscrack... just at the top... you wonder what it could be as you feel it slowly oozing down...lower...lower... finally with a tickle reaching your puckered little rosebud. My fingers touch you there then, massaging gently in circles around the rim of your ass. You gasp again, pushing your ass back to meet my touch as I slowly start to work a finger inside, the oily liquid easing the path into your tight hole. I pump it in and out all the way to my knuckle as as you moan louder... and then I surprise you with a sudden *SMACK* from my other hand...
Again pumping... and *SMACK*.
And again.
Loving the way your body jumps with each one, the way your ass clenches at my finger, and the way you look bent over like this as I prepare you. I have two fingers in you now - as deep as they will go as I twist and probe... still spanking you slowly with the other hand as I tell you this is what happens to naughty teases. Your butt cheeks are on fire, but your moans and gasps only get louder - and your pussy is running down your thighs it's so wet and hot.
Then you hear the sound you've been waiting for as I unzip my fly right behind you. I pull my fingers from you, seeing your now-lubed hole slowly tighten again... then immediately line up the head of my cock and start pushing slowly forward... you moan in that slight pain this time as you try to adjust to the size... the head of my dick finally popping inside you as you cry out... I pause for a moment to let you adjust... and to revel in the exquisite tightness... and then I start to push deeper... slowly but firmly... feeling you stretch wide... a low moaning cry/wail of pain and pleasure the whole time as my cock fills your ass. God what an incredible feeling! Finally I'm buried to the balls as I rest for a moment, enjoying the sheath around my hardness as you look at all the people watching me sodomize you.
Then, I start to fuck you - no more gentleness, but long, hard strokes filling you deep inside. One of my hands pressing your shoulder blades holding you down, the other slapping your ass again... switching sides every few strokes to *SMACK* you hard. You can feel my balls slap your pussy and clit as I bury myself each time, and I can feel the heat from your crotch upon mine. The people left in the room have all moved a bit closer, strangely silent as they observe our passion. I'm talking in your ear the whole time, asking if my girl likes her assfucking; if she likes being punished for teasing. The yes's of your response lost in your moans, the sounds of you begging me to fuck you harder and deeper.
I'm moving faster now, the oil making it easier to use your tightest hole. You reach one hand down to rub your clit in time with my thrusts as your own pleasure rises, loving the way I drive you into the table with a grunt each time I bury myself, deeper than you thought anyone could go. Moving faster as our breathing both gets heavier, the pants and cries indistinguishable from each other. Until finally... I cry out... shoving all the way in as my cock erupts inside you... hot sticky jets of cum shooting out... filling your bowels in that unique way... your own fingers pinching your clit as you cry out and shake in orgasm under me. Holding myself deep as we spasm together. Then taking a last few hard jabs with my still-embedded prick as I look down to see your hole, red and raw around me with my sperm glistening as it oozes out. Then pulling myself from you, still holding you down as I wipe myself clean and put my cock back inside my pants. Only then pulling you to your own feet to lead your still-dazed body out the restaurant past everyone as you feel my sticky cum slowly oozing from your burning hole...
i heard recently about a ultra-high-altitude remote control solar plane that's essentially one big wing- one of the uses being broadband/wireless internet access- which sounds to me to be a more viable solution than baloons that drift with wind currents.
Is this really all that feasible?
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Factor in losing all that equipment and have to buy more just for 24 hours of coverage sounds like a pain when most of the areas that probaly need coverage already are.
-- mass mounds of mctasty manchowder
Hover at 100,000 feet?
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tarth
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Is that really close enough to provide a decent signal? And more importantly (too me, anyway) is there anyway this could be rigged up to provide wireless internet access, 802.11b or otherwise?
The article also says that 70 balloons are released every two days. I have wonder if 70 balloons is really going to cover all of America like they hope it will.
Re:Hover at 100,000 feet?
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Each of the weather balloons could provide service to an area of about 100,000 square miles. The resulting overlap in coverage between balloons would enable ubiquitous wireless service throughout the country, Knoblach said.
And more importantly (too me, anyway) is there anyway this could be rigged up to provide wireless internet access, 802.11b or otherwise?
There's a reason we call it "fixed wireless" - making it mobile at 50,000 feet would require omni antennas with *much* greater transmitting power than even contemplated today.
*scoove*
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And more importantly (too me, anyway) is there anyway this could be rigged up to provide wireless internet access, 802.11b or otherwise?
Yeah dude. On launching day, take your laptop with a wireless card, and hide behind a bush near the launch site. Just about when they are ready to let the balloon go, run out of the bushes with a "Whooo hooooooooallyourballoonarebelongtoussssss!" and grab onto the bottom of the balloon. It will go up and they will probably shoot at you with M16s but chances are they will not be expecting this and they will miss. Then, when you are high enough up there, turn on the laptop and with any luck you'll drift over San Franciso and you can get some sweet wi-fi action from a defunct dot com with its wireless network still running.
Oh wait, you meant how can this help you get wireless access while you're still on the ground. Well... yeah.
Re:Hover at 100,000 feet?
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Ballons every 2.5miles using omni-directional transmitting signals wow the sky would look wierd. Think that would look nice from a satelite snapshot??
The height isn't the issue -- according to my first search result, here, GSM's extended range cells extend to a radius of 60 kilometers, or about 200,000 feet in mobile to base station distance. The only reason GSM is normally limited to 17km distance is for frequency reuse and timing considerations. With base stations in balloons far above the earth you pretty much eliminate multipath interference...Except maybe from the ground beneath your feet.
The claim that gives me pause is that the balloons will cover 100,000 square miles. That's a hypotenuse of about 180 miles at the edge of the cell.. That may indeed require a little more transmit power.
Every time I read one of these pie in the sky (or balloon in this case) stories, I can't believe the reporter didn't ask what I'd think would be the basic question: What is all this junk going to end up?
We've had environmentalist complaints about PCs and all the toxic components they possess. Now some not-yet-defunct VC is pushing disposal cell sites and nobody's curious? What about when a 747 sucks one of these floating cell sites into an engine? And they complain about use of personal electronics on the plane...
Heck, in high school we were told we couldn't launch balloon projects anymore (you know, where you'd put a note on it and ask the finder to call you and let you know where it ended up at) because the environmentalists said some sea critters mistook the deflated balloons for fish, ate them and choked to death.
Heck, in high school we were told we couldn't launch balloon projects anymore (you know, where you'd put a note on it and ask the finder to call you and let you know where it ended up at) because the environmentalists said some sea critters mistook the deflated balloons for fish, ate them and choked to death.
I once mistook one of your ballons for fish, ate it, and *nearly* choked to death. Either that, or I was eating some food at Applebee's.
Re:Debris
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Hm. Did you get diarrhea afterward? If so, it must have been Applebee's. If not, it was probably just a baloon.
That's how i normally tell the difference, anyway.
grease--
Re:Debris
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Weather balloons tend to go up, perhaps touch the stratosphere a little, and come down relatively near where it came up. That means it avoids straying into restricted airspace near airports and also high altitudes where jetliners cruise.
Re:Debris
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Why not get more out of the payload?
Why not question if there is a better, less polluting, method of weather observing in the first place?
Personally I agree about the environmental issue. I find it a bit bothering. Yes the balloons are already going up there - but the article said the company would launch their own if they could not use the weather ones. Also each Baloon will have $300 worth of kit attached to it. While I dont like the idea of this from an environmental point of view, I reckon its quite cool, because i'm sure they'll be hardware hackers out there quite happy to go hunting for this stuff.
"Every time I read one of these pie in the sky (or balloon in this case)
stories, I can't believe the reporter didn't ask what I'd think would be
the basic question: What is all this junk going to end up?"
I agree on this issue.. 50,000large balloons per year,
Yikes! Taking a 5 to 6lb payload to 100,000 feet requires a sizable balloon.
At least 30 to 40 ft in diameter!!
Those suckers are going to come down, sometimes in a controlled fashion.
But, a fair number will come down all by themselves!!
On a busy highway?
A commercial jet liner in flight?
On a tall building/or bridge?
Maybe some power lines?
Imagine the headlines, when some school bus full of kids goes careening
into a ravine, because a vary large balloon blocked the drivers vision!!
NO thanks!
747's and other commercial air traffic fly no higher than 45,000 feet. These weather ballons, as mentioned in the article, float along at 100,000 feet. The chance of one of these weather ballons running into a commercial airliner are *very* remote.
However, I'd still like to know where they all end up!
... because now when the Superbowl or World Series is in town, Telephone companies can put these things up to help maintain reasonable wireless service. Maybe these could have even helped avoid the cell phone blockouts in NYC on 9/11
Gives a new meaning to that all too popular catch "you really let the air out of my balloon." when someone can't connect a cellphone call!
Ha Ha! mod this up fockers! +1 Assbait
About half of that would go toward equipment: $300 worth for each of the 50,000 or so balloons that would be launched over the course of a year.
I hope that some of the $300 accounts for a littering fine.
Wireless balloons?
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Flakeloaf
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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"?
It's a buzzword. Everything without a wire is by virtue "wireless," and thus cool and can cost at least $10 more. I have a wireless toaster, in fact. I just look at it and indulge in my hipness on days I don't want to make toast.
Hey suck my balls commie
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Anonymous Coward
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You heard me. I just need to fly through here and drop like all that stuff on by.
Re:Hey suck my balls commie
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on+by
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I just need to fly through here and drop like all that stuff on by.
Greg Allan a.k.a. Adam_Baum, the lead core developer and one of the four founding members of the PostNuke CMS Development Project passed away from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. The accident occurred June 16, 2002 near his home in Meaford, Ontario in Canada.
Greg Allan was a humble and personable man who always downplayed his considerable skills. He was a self-taught coder who contributed to every aspect of development from cleaning up other people's code to writing new and innovative software.
Greg was an invaluable asset to the PostNuke development team, and a dear and trusted friend and co-worker to people on every continent. Through this first year of PostNuke's existence, Greg's personable and giving nature has been a guiding light and inspiration to many people and projects that have shaped the development landscape and social personality of the PostNuke project.
Surviving Greg are his parents, Bob and Leone Allan, his brother Brian, his girlfriend Kim along with her two children Kristin and Kassandra, his dog Chevy, and trusted friends Dean and Natasha.
In memory of Greg and out of respect for all those mourning his passing, all PostNuke development and official support activity has been suspended for one week. We urge all those using PostNuke to post a copy of this article on each of your PostNuke-Powered sites to commemorate the memory and accomplishments of Adam_Baum. Please refer your condolences and comments to the memorial article on postnuke.com.
Re:Sad news for PostNuke...
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He lived in Canada. Who gives a shit?
ZDNet had an article about this just the other day
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Anonymous Coward
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Yeah, ironically enough I was just over at ZDNet website the other day and they had an article on this very subject..
This was the turn of the century. Location, Ellis Island, New York. Sadie had come from the old country seeking a husband and a fortune. She had used her only talents, her mouth, hand (weaving accident, don't ask) and tight ass to pay for the fair. Now some fascist with a pencil thin mustache was telling her she would have to go back, she had trachoma. Sadie begged and pleaded and offered herself to fascist. It was to no avail, he was a queer as a texan. Yep, texan queers, so queer vaginas, breasts and women are totally blocked from there concious mind. Oh, fuck this is boring.
-- mass mounds of mctasty manchowder
This post made via cell phone
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-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.
Re:This post made via cell phone
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That is more work than I usually put into it. I usually just go with a "Y" or a "N", or I call the person in question. I haven't found a AI word sensing technology yet that can beat talking to someone... in fact, that is why I got a phone and not a pager.
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You totally missed the point of the post. Read it again slowly and clench your teeth so your lips dont move.
My experience with one of these "Wheather Ballons" was that the balloon fell to the ground and aliens scaned my network via their wifi connection. They then probed some of my folders, often reaching a level of 12 folders deep. This was considered research, and they thanked me for my cooperation.
Of course, everyone I tell doesn't believe me.
-- "Oh no, 3 horny women and only 2 condoms...Thank god I read slashdot"
Re:My experience...
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wadetemp
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I believe you. You might want to try defragging, it often makes recursing your folders quicker and less painful for your file system.
Re:My experience...
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They left earth peacefully when they found the pr0n they were looking for.....
Yeah, I heard about these! I was gonna build one but I got high and killed my dog and then had sex with corpse! Woo! I'll tell was that a weird feeling when I woke up the next morning!
-- mass mounds of mctasty manchowder
Re:ZDNet had an article about this just the other
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Hey! Go find your own redirector! That one's mine!
Better alternatives
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Clearly using free-floating weather balloons has a number of limitations and disadvantages.
Now we know that NASA has great plans for its solar-powered airplane -- including acting as a semi-permanent flying repeater-station, but I wonder if smaller, cheaper options might not be available.
For example... what about a much smaller (say 20-30 foot span) autonomous craft designed to soar thermals during the day (while charging its batteries and gaining as much altitude as it can) -- then revert to battery power and/or gradually descend during the hours of darkness.
If the energy required to keep these craft airborn in the longer nights of winter was greater than that availble to be stored during the day then they could carry a fuel-load to power a high-efficiency internal combustion engine (probably a very small diesel engine). Every week or so the craft would have to land for refueling and maintenance -- but that's not a big deal.
Just like the US military's Predator RPV, they could be programmed to land on a runway set aside specially for the purpose.
The cost of a smaller craft, particularly one that wasn't totally reliant on solar-cells, would likely be much less than NASA's efforts -- thus allowing more of them to be built for a given budget.
By using more craft, they could cruise at a much lower altititude than either the weather balloon or the NASA craft.
Using modern composites, low cost GPS, and other "affordable" technologies, such a craft could likely be built for less than US$10K.
Assuming a 50% duty cycle, a fleet of 10 craft could cover a huge area at a much lower cost than towers, and with the ability to dynamically vary the coverage area if required -- simply by repositioning the craft.
Re:Better alternatives
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Hi troll, how are u? I am good. R U fine? I M fine. It is a good day outside 2day.
Re:Better alternatives
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Anonymous Coward
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I am very well thank you. It's the middle of the night where I am. How are you?
wait wouldn't it...
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neo8750
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would the ballons not get blown around. Thus makeing wireless coverage in areas with lots of wind impossible or is this the whole idea?
No, because SUV-driving-cell-phone-talking people drive erratically enough and fast enough anyway that they could probably keep within range of one... and in true "Undercover Brother" style, they wouldn't spill thier drink either, although the drink would be a 48oz Starbucks and not orange cola.
Damn, I believe you made the first UCB reference on/. Solid!
-- Who run Barter Town?
Practical Concerns
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Anonymous Coward
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The article states that the balloons were launched day in, day out. What about the poor weather days where the wind is gusty and fast? Does the cell coverage on those days get lost? Over the summer (in the southern hemisphere), I worked to help launch ozone measuring balloons, (same idea, more equipment), and we launched them only in fairly calm conditions. A balloon full of hydrogen is a fairly scary prospect when it's getting blown around. Does this also mean a commercial company will be putting extra pressure on the NWS to launch in potentially unsafe conditions? Scary thought!
"Since the chance of finding a balloon once it falls back to earth is remote, the company isn't counting on getting any equipment back once it is launched."
This is just great! I was wondering how I was going to get the equipment for my own wireless network!
Theoretically , you should be able to pinpoint the last known position of a repeater before it went offline, by triangulating its position from a few ground stations. All you'd really need is a low-power "save me" beacon to home in on when it hits the deck. Presuming that there is anything left when it hits the deck, of course.
Maybe someone could build a distributed client that measures signal strength and delay times to it's repeaters and (with a few other clients) triangulate positions from there. Would be good to have a webpage of 'downed wifi equipment' to trawl through... just in case.
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You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike. There is a lot of hype here.
In Mourning of Ann Landers' Death
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Dear Ann Landers: My husband and I live in military housing. His supervisor recently moved in across the street. The wife has decided I am her new best friend.
"Eleanor" drops in to visit five times a day. Since she knows I don't smoke, she puts her cigarette butts out on my lawn. It doesn't help. Every piece of furniture in my living room smells of smoke. When my husband and I sit down to eat, Eleanor comes over and sits with us until we are finished. If she sees me get into my car, she grabs her purse and jumps in next to me. She doesn't care where I'm going. She wants to come, too. Last week was the last straw. She told her son I would pick him up from work because she knew I'd be going that way.
Eleanor is a major gossip and tells me things I should not know about other military personnel. She is loud, rude and vulgar. I cannot avoid her, and I cannot tell her off because she is the wife of my husband's boss. I am trying to keep the peace until we are permitted to move, but I don't know how long I can keep my cool. Advise me, please. -- Mouth Shut in Colorado
Dear Colorado: Lock your door so Eleanor cannot drop in during dinner. If she rings the bell, say, "So sorry, but we're eating now. I'll call you when we are finished." Then close the door immediately. Put boxes and packages in your car so she has nowhere to sit. If she asks you to pick up her son, tell her, "Sorry, but I have a doctor's appointment."
Be friendly and smile, but don't allow her to take advantage of you.
Dear Ann Landers: Eight months ago, I secretly married "Tony." We have been living together for two years. His mother lives with us. He does not want his mother to know we are married. (He still calls her "Mommy.")
Tony is mildly disabled from a car accident, and his mother is his primary caregiver. She is a wonderful woman, but whenever the subject of marriage comes up, she cries and asks what will happen to her. Tony says we shouldn't say anything about marriage until SHE is "ready."
I don't think she will ever be ready. I wouldn't mind if she lived nearby. In fact, I'd be willing to rent the apartment next door. But I think it's time my marriage was out in the open. Tony says I am being selfish. Am I? -- Patsy in Pennsylvania
Dear Patsy: You are not being selfish. Tony is a mama's boy. Tell him he has one week to let Mommy know you are married. After that, YOU will tell her. I wish you luck. You're going to need it.
Dear Ann Landers: I have been planning a family vacation with some friends, the "Smiths." We are taking a cruise together at the end of August. I made the mistake of mentioning the cruise to another friend, and she called yesterday to say she had booked the same cruise for her family.
I don't want to take a vacation with both of these families. They do not know each other, and I don't think they will get along. It will be awkward for us to split our time between them, and I am sure it will ruin my entire vacation. Is there any way to ask one of them to back out of the cruise? -- Don't Want to Hurt Feelings in Dallas
Dear Dallas: No. Your friends might get along fine, and if they don't, there are other things to do on a cruise. You are under no obligation to entertain them. Since your plans are to travel with the Smiths, concentrate on them, and try to have a good time.
Gem of the Day: Summer vacation is a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.
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Re:In Mourning of Ann Landers' Death
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Jim Varney, the voice of Slinky Dog in the "Toy Story" movies and the bumbling handyman Ernest in TV ads and a popular series of slapstick films, died Thursday of cancer at age 50, friends said.
Varney, who lost two-thirds of his right lung to cancer in September 1998, died before dawn at his home in Whitehouse, Tenn., outside Nashville, his spokesman and former wife, Jane Varney said.
"He passed away very peacefully," she said. "It all happened rather quickly." His death came just months after he reprised his voice role as Slinky Dog in a sequel to the 1995 computer-animated Disney hit "Toy Story."
A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Varney is best known for his role as Ernest P. Worrell, the grinning, tool-belted bumbler he has portrayed in a host of television commercials. His character always appeared opposite an off-camera, silent neighbor, whose attention he got with the line "Hey Vern!" before launching into a hard-sell.
His Ernest persona has been the star of a series of nine slapstick comedy films dating back to the '80s, including "Ernest Goes to Camp," Ernest Saves Christmas," "Ernest Goes to Jail," "Ernest Rides Again," "Ernest Goes to Africa" and "Ernest in the Army."
The Ernest character originally was created to help promote a newly opened amusement park in Bowling Green, Ky., his longtime attorney and friend, William "Hoot" Gibson, said.
His battle with cancer was first revealed publicly in November after questions were raised about his loss of hair when he was seen at public appearances in connection with "Toy Story 2."
Following his 1998 lung surgery, he suffered a bout of pneumonia, then underwent radiation treatments after cancer was detected in his brain in January 1999, Ms. Varney said. She said cancer also was believed to have spread to his spine. Friends said he had been a heavy smoker.
Still, he continued working, and "it's really been in the last three months that he was laid up, not able to get around," she said.
Varney will return posthumously to the big-screen in two upcoming films, according to his friend, Gibson.
He co-stars with Oscar-winner Billy Bob Thornton in the comedic love story "Daddy and Them," scheduled for release by Miramax Films later this year. In the film, written and directed by Thornton, Varney plays a character named Uncle Hazel, whose relatives are trying to rescue him from prison.
He also will supply the voice of a cook named Cookie in the upcoming Disney Animated Feature "Atlantis," due for release next year.
Re:ZDNet had an article about this just the other
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Anonymous Coward
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Actually, it's ZDNets, you incompetent-linux-using-cocksmoker.
But then none of the/. editors would be able to post stories, because their karma would hit rock bottom in a week!
Come to think of it, you may be on to something. . .
similar wacky idea
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DarkSkiesAhead
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A friend of mine who does some work for NASA was describing another wacky concept he heard about to expand wireless coverage. The idea is that enough commercial planes are in the air at any moment, and are spaced evenly enough, to provide coverage for much of the country. Certainly major cities would be well covered. And the nice thing is that busy travel times coincide with peak calling hours.
Unless off course planes are grounded for whatever reason (remember 911) or pilots go on strike etc. Besides disrupting the traveling infrastructure you would also disrupt (some of) the communication infrastructure.
Let's not also forget the "Please turn off all electronic devices during flight" rule. I highly doubt the airlines, or let alone the FAA, would allow 802.11b equipement to be mounted on commercial airliners. I'm sure it's feasible, and with enough work, a solution could be found.
It's a good idea though... and I have to admit that a national meshed 802.11b network based on planes in the air would be very cool!:D
Clearly ...
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Anonymous Coward
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...using free-floating weather balloons has a number of limitations and disadvantages.
Now we know that NASA has great plans for its solar-powered airplane -- including acting as a semi-permanent flying repeater-station, but I wonder if smaller, cheaper options might not be available.
For example... what about a much smaller (say 20-30 foot span) autonomous craft designed to soar thermals during the day (while charging its batteries and gaining as much altitude as it can) -- then revert to battery power and/or gradually descend during the hours of darkness.
If the energy required to keep these craft airborn in the longer nights of winter was greater than that availble to be stored during the day then they could carry a fuel-load to power a high-efficiency internal combustion engine (probably a very small diesel engine). Every week or so the craft would have to land for refueling and maintenance -- but that's not a big deal.
Just like the US military's Predator RPV, they could be programmed to land on a runway set aside specially for the purpose.
The cost of a smaller craft, particularly one that wasn't totally reliant on solar-cells, would likely be much less than NASA's efforts -- thus allowing more of them to be built for a given budget.
By using more craft, they could cruise at a much lower altititude than either the weather balloon or the NASA craft.
Using modern composites, low cost GPS, and other "affordable" technologies, such a craft could likely be built for less than US$10K.
Assuming a 50% duty cycle, a fleet of 10 craft could cover a huge area at a much lower cost than towers, and with the ability to dynamically vary the coverage area if required -- simply by repositioning the craft.
Fly enough of those things and the law of statistics will have them crashing into people's homes. People are a little sensitive about those kinds of things these days...
The concept of putting transmitters in the sky isn't new. Iridium has been doing worldwide telephone coverage by using satellites for years. The whole weather balloon receiver thing, while it's an interesting concept, sounds like it would be error prone (the coverage would be inconsistant due to weather balloons going up or down) and costly (To quote the article: "The company estimates its annual operating expenses at $35 million per year. About half of that would go toward equipment: $300 worth for each of the 50,000 or so balloons that would be launched over the course of a year.").
You do not have a future as a comedian. Don't quit your day job.
Er, wait...
-- "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Re:Hemos
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Anonymous Coward
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as jeffk would say AHHAHAH ROOOFLELELFLELE!!!!!!11111 (Internet Lingo)
Re:Hemos
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Anonymous Coward
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See that bit that says "mansa writes" at the beginning, and how the rest of the article there is all in "quotes" and italics? Well, gosh, newbie, do ya think there might be any indication there that maybe HEMOS DIDN'T FUCKING WRITE THAT!!
The question is...
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Anonymous Coward
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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.
ATTWS was nice enough to stick a huge ass tower up on the hill about.5km from my house. The neighbor yahoots think it's FUN to blow up the light on it. Idiots.
Hot Air?
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Mindflayer75
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I hope it's not just a bunch of hot air!
Most weather balloons actually use Helium. The volume of He in the balloon expands with increased altitude which results in cooling of the gas... No "hot air" in this one as temperatures can drop to minus 125 degrees Celsius in polar mesospheric clouds that form over the summertime polar caps. However, most WX balloons don't get much higher than the stratosphere.
Yes, I realise it was pun... just thought I throw in some factoids.:-)
Note: I'm posting this comment again so that the user that moderated my previous comment as "Redundant" will be right in a time-reversed parallel universe.;)
Re:This has been posted four months ago
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ObitMan
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I actually got modded up once by cutting and pasting the top five comments from an original story when there was a repeat. heres the kicker. I copied the whole post uid and all and still got modded.
100,000 feet / 186,000 ft/sec = 0.53 * 2 = 1.075 second round trip. Quake would definitely suck. It would be annoying to have an extra second built into every link you click on, but that would probably be livable.
-- Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Re:Forget playing Quake
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Anonymous Coward
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Errr..the speed of light is 186,000 miles/sec
Re:Forget playing Quake
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mduell
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Except the speed of light is 186,000sm/sec.. so it'd be 1/5280th of that figure, or 0.000203598485sec or.2msec or 200usec...
Re:Forget playing Quake
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Anonymous Coward
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Wrong Again! The speed of light is 186000 miles/hr or 3.00*10^8 m/s.
The fact that you got it wrong by three orders of magnitude, didn't bother a hapless moderator who thought your post was "interesting":o)
Anyway, on the Internet, the distances involved are usually much bigger than 100.00 ft, and yet online gaming doesn't seem to suffer because of that. No, I think this technology (high altitude baloons for signal relay) has some other, very important, inherent weaknesses.
Lets here it FOR MICROSOFT!!
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Anonymous Coward
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Sun is done! I know it. You know how I know it? Because Solaris is not stable enough to house serious web services. SPARC servers do not scale as well as Dell boxes to handle core applications. The UNIX object model is not crisp, refined or elegant. It is based on proprietary interfaces from C like malloc(), which is a totally proprietary way to allocate memory. Real programmers use DWORD LPCSTR Win32CreateMuchoMemoryForIE6() to get their memory allocated!
LET SUN REST IN PEACE!!
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Anonymous Coward
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Sun is done! I know it. You know how I know it? Because Solaris is not stable enough to house serious web services. SPARC servers do not scale as well as Dell boxes to handle core applications. The UNIX object model is not crisp, refined or elegant. It is based on proprietary interfaces from C like malloc(), which is a totally proprietary way to allocate memory. Real programmers use DWORD LPCSTR Win32CreateMuchoMemoryForIE6() to get their memory allocated!
..and to think Linux also uses this ancient and proprietary method to allocate memory just bongles my mind. May the rest in peace as well during the post.net era.
SUN IS DYING!
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Anonymous Coward
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look here! My they rest in peace in the post.net era.
Where do you think they usualy go?
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autopr0n
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We are talking about just a few dozon baloons. It dosn't matter where they end up.
-- autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Re:Where do you think they usualy go?
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ColaMan
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We are talking about just a few dozon baloons. It dosn't matter where they end up.
Bzzt! Wrong answer.
Take (for example) Antartica. Seeing as scientists launch approx 9,000 balloons a year from all the antarctic bases , that's a lot of ballons left lying (or floating) around. As most ballons are made of some form of plastic , they will likely remain in the environment for at least a hundred years. Animals often confuse ballons floating around for food and die.
Personally , I don't think they've a hope in hell of providing any decent , permanent coverage from ballons... unless maybe if they were tethered.
--
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike. There is a lot of hype here.
Re:Where do you think they usualy go?
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It matters.
Yes, we are talking about a few dozen baloons EVERY DAY.
Re:Where do you think they usualy go?
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Anonymous Coward
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Hey, ask Apple, with their fear of the rise of a Linux desktop that would threaten their proprietary OS.
Dead penguins is a good thing.
Well I hate to burst your balloon but...
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"The balloons typically hover at about 100,000 feet for about 24 hours."
Actually not quite...
The balloon flights actually only last about two hours and then the balloons break. In fact the balloon flights in question are done world wide at 0000 and 1200 UCT (Used to be GMT). They record temperature, humidty, air pressure and by triangulating from the ground tracking antenna you can calculate upper level winds.
I'm actually being generous with the length of flight. The time of year has a lot to do with the length of flight. The calculated height of the flight is related very much to the air pressure and for a flight to be valid it generally must be below 100 millibars. (The higher the balloon the lower the millibar reading). A flight reaching 3 millibars is around 120,000 ft. Summer flights usually have balloon bursts below 15 millibars. In winter early bursts, above 100 millibars, can require a second release, provided it happens within a given time window. The weather instrument package is called a radiosonde. Two types of upper air balloon a generally used for launching off the surface. For calmer winds a soft cheap latex balloon called a Kaysam is used and for adverse wind conditions or launch from a ship at sea a severe weather balloon called a Totex is used. (Totex is more rugged and more expensive)
They say they plan to hitch a ride on the existing balloons. The short duration is going to be a problem. The balloons expand as they rise and then go BOOM
I worked as an Aerological Observer for Environment Canada at a variety of Arctic Weather stations for about six years sending these suckers up there! There are long duration high altitude balloons out there, but the upper air program the article refers to doesn't use them, and the balloon shown in the photograph is of the variety to quickly put a few "holes" in the flight duration claim!
Watch the investor's money go BOOM!
Re:Well I hate to burst your balloon but...
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I've launched radiosondes from ships before; we used 100 gram latex balloons. But, I have to admit, the balloons barely make it off the steel beach when the ship is going 25+ knots. Another note, we considered a height of 500mb (18,000ft in midlats) to be an acceptable balloon launch, since one could still obtain quite a bit of info from it (e.g. LCL, CCL, Showalter, positive/negative energy areas, etc).
Re:Well I hate to burst your balloon but...
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Excellent comment by slewazimuth. Only thing I can add are a few pictures of weather balloon launches, both of the described kind and also tethered balloons.
Re:Well I hate to burst your balloon but...
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scoove
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Watch the investor's money go BOOM!
Exactly. Now, if the inventors had written that they were going to launch a fleet of wireless-equipped zepplins, piloted by former telecommunication industry executives (they're a dime a dozen right now), the story would have been more plausible.
*scoove*
Re:Well I hate to burst your balloon but...
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I've launched a rawinsonde a few times for the NWS, and frankly I don't have a clue as to where they think that these things stay up in the air for more than MAYBE 6-7hrs, let alone 24.
BTW, balloons burst about 2-3 hours after release, then they fall back to the ground via parachute. Granted it's a slower trip back down, but still...
I'm thinking they've taken too many pulls off of the hydrogen tank.
Using 3x10^8 m/s for speed of light, I make it 0.1 ms = 100 usec one-way to the balloon, i.e. 0.2 ms for ground-to-ground via the balloon. So the wireless part will be fine as far as Quake is concerned - it's just the other parts of the trip that may add latency.
In practice, latency may be much worse than this - look at GPRS, where latencies are many hundreds of milliseconds (often half a second) even though the wireless distances are much shorter. Wireless links use a lot of extra error correction and in the case of GSM/GPRS, packets are sometimes split into much smaller frames that are then interleaved with other frames - this is because GSM is voice-centric and this works well for voice. Not sure if GPRS has a better coding that avoids this, but if this balloon system is designed for data it should avoid some of the overhead.
"I hope it's not just a bunch of hot air!"
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And continuing the trend in bad jokes about this story:
It just sounds like a lot of pie in the sky to me.
In November, the company won the rights to use a designated frequency of 1.4 MHz in a Federal Communications Commission auction.
I HOPE that's a typo, because if it isn't, that's smack-dab in the middle of the AM Broadcast Band (1400kHz), and I would be furious if the FCC was auctioning off spots on a precious resource like that to a bunch of nuts with weather balloons...
Up for 10 minutes every 6 hour ??
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The weather baloons are all sent up at the same times. At least 4 times a day ( at 00,06,12 and 18 UTC ) but how do you get a continuous coverage out of that ?
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
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In November, the company won the rights to use a designated frequency of 1.4 MHz in a Federal Communications Commission auction.
Correct me if I'm wrong (if so, it's waaaay past my bedtime -- that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!), but isn't 1.4 MHz right smack dab in the middle of the existing terrestrial AM radio band of 530 kHz (0.53 MHz) to 1.72 MHz?
If so, wouldn't a terrestrial AM tower blasting out its carrier at that frequency (1.39 or 1.41 MHz) totally blot out the signal from such a balloon?
Re:What's the frequency, Kenneth?
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I think it's a typo. After all, 1.4Mhz could barely provide 56k modem speeds. Probably is 1.4Ghz.
-- I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
this story is a repeat, here is some added info
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Better alternatives? (Score:5, Interesting) by NewtonsLaw on Tuesday February 19, @04:01AM (#3030892) (User #409638 Info) Clearly using free-floating weather balloons has a number of limitations and disadvantages.
Now we know that NASA has great plans for its solar-powered airplane -- including acting as a semi-permanent flying repeater-station, but I wonder if smaller, cheaper options might not be available.
For example... what about a much smaller (say 20-30 foot span) autonomous craft designed to soar thermals during the day (while charging its batteries and gaining as much altitude as it can) -- then revert to battery power and/or gradually descend during the hours of darkness.
If the energy required to keep these craft airborn in the longer nights of winter was greater than that availble to be stored during the day then they could carry a fuel-load to power a high-efficiency internal combustion engine (probably a very small diesel engine). Every week or so the craft would have to land for refueling and maintenance -- but that's not a big deal.
Just like the US military's Predator RPV, they could be programmed to land on a runway set aside specially for the purpose.
The cost of a smaller craft, particularly one that wasn't totally reliant on solar-cells, would likely be much less than NASA's efforts -- thus allowing more of them to be built for a given budget.
By using more craft, they could cruise at a much lower altititude than either the weather balloon or the NASA craft.
Using modern composites, low cost GPS, and other "affordable" technologies, such a craft could likely be built for less than US$10K.
Assuming a 50% duty cycle, a fleet of 10 craft could cover a huge area at a much lower cost than towers, and with the ability to dynamically vary the coverage area if required -- simply by repositioning the craft.
-- Who run Barter Town?
Think of the coverage you'd get...
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...if you were at the eye of a tornado that had sucked in a few hundred of these:-)
--I have a better idea
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Anonymous Coward
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--put one of the disposable node widgets on the top of every powerline pole when it makes a bend in the road. Keep line of sight that way. Easy for the techs to aim, too. There are millions of these poles all over the nation. No new cable needed, and they won't get lost and have to be re launched all the time.
I am a wireless engineer, and this is dumb
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This will never work. Atleast for PCS freqencies.
100k feet = 18 miles. Currently, the cell sites that I'm responsible for are at maximum 20 miles apart. A site 18 miles distant is going to provide zero coverage to anyone inside a building.
In addition, 2 balloon sites, is going to have jack sh!t for capacity. Assuming these weather balloons are even capable of lifting our smallest GSM equipment (which is far more than the 6 pount limit mentioned in the article), each ballon would be have a maximum of 29 voice channels. That's enough to cover a busy city block, or a tiny town.
Each of the weather balloons could provide service to an area of about 100,000 square miles
Well duh. Are there going to be more than 30 people using their phone in that 100k square miles? You betcha.
This is a moumentally stupid idea.
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If you were really a wireless engineer...
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Anonymous Coward
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..you'd realize that that 20 miles accounts for the possiblity of objects interferring between the stations. When you shoot the signal straight up you are going to get more effective distance. Whether that effective distance is 18 miles remains to be seen. Even so, it does seem like a generally wacky and impracticle idea.
Why not airplanes....
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Why on earth don't these idiots approach all of the major airlines and mount the boxes to all airplanes. The airlines could charge for the usage and boost their profits. Think of how many airplanes are in the air over the usa at any given moment. Now the trick part is to design a cheap phased array antenna for the client side radio.
Not for the data that the baloons give you. The key information that the baloon gives you is the wind, temperature, and humidity at different altitudes. Unfortunately, satellites are not currently capable of providing this for different altitudes. The data is important for weather forecasters, and particularly important for aviation weather forecasts.
Debris is at least somewhat biodegradeable
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Spamalamadingdong
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(I know you were trolling, but there are some valid points to be made in response.)
The balloons themselves are made of latex, a natural substance derived from plants. They decay in ultraviolet light and break down quite naturally. An airplane hitting one of the balloons probably wouldn't notice. An airplane hitting one of the payloads might suffer some damage, but the construction of those radiosondes is for lightness, not durability. How much punishment do you need to take, riding up into the sky under a balloon?
Of course, all the balloons come down by themselves within a rather short time. Sheer UV and ozone embrittlement of the balloon envelope will do it if nothing else does. They burst and come down in rather small pieces (if you want to see what happens you can buy a balloon from one of the scientific surplus houses which sell them, and inflate it with your shop vac until it explodes).
What gets me is the claim that the payloads are unrecoverable. How hard could it be to equip each one with a mylar Rogallo kite and have it aim toward its ground station once the balloon bursts and lets it start gliding down? A 5:1 lift/drag ratio means a range of about 100 miles starting from 100,000 feet. What do you need to guide it, one model-airplane servo? This isn't rocket science.
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Third post? This is harder to achieve. :)
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A pic of these balloons can be found here
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been posted a few months ago?
"I hope it's not just a bunch or hot air!"
Damn there goes my +5 funny.
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
between wireless connectivity and UFO sightings.
At least the name 'Airtouch' would make sense now. What the hell is a Verizon?
- Peter
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.
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i heard recently about a ultra-high-altitude remote control solar plane that's essentially one big wing- one of the uses being broadband/wireless internet access- which sounds to me to be a more viable solution than baloons that drift with wind currents.
Factor in losing all that equipment and have to buy more just for 24 hours of coverage sounds like a pain when most of the areas that probaly need coverage already are.
mass mounds of mctasty manchowder
Is that really close enough to provide a decent signal? And more importantly (too me, anyway) is there anyway this could be rigged up to provide wireless internet access, 802.11b or otherwise?
The article also says that 70 balloons are released every two days. I have wonder if 70 balloons is really going to cover all of America like they hope it will.
Every time I read one of these pie in the sky (or balloon in this case) stories, I can't believe the reporter didn't ask what I'd think would be the basic question: What is all this junk going to end up?
We've had environmentalist complaints about PCs and all the toxic components they possess. Now some not-yet-defunct VC is pushing disposal cell sites and nobody's curious? What about when a 747 sucks one of these floating cell sites into an engine? And they complain about use of personal electronics on the plane...
Heck, in high school we were told we couldn't launch balloon projects anymore (you know, where you'd put a note on it and ask the finder to call you and let you know where it ended up at) because the environmentalists said some sea critters mistook the deflated balloons for fish, ate them and choked to death.
So where's the uproar from the ELF/ALF folks?
*scoove*
... because now when the Superbowl or World Series is in town, Telephone companies can put these things up to help maintain reasonable wireless service. Maybe these could have even helped avoid the cell phone blockouts in NYC on 9/11
Gives a new meaning to that all too popular catch "you really let the air out of my balloon." when someone can't connect a cellphone call! Ha Ha! mod this up fockers! +1 Assbait
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I hope that some of the $300 accounts for a littering fine.
As opposed to all of those *wired* balloons floating around out there, entangling birds and electrocuting poor innocent workers during lightning storms.
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
You heard me. I just need to fly through here and drop like all that stuff on by.
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Yeah, ironically enough I was just over at ZDNet website the other day and they had an article on this very subject..
Here is the link
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My experience with one of these "Wheather Ballons" was that the balloon fell to the ground and aliens scaned my network via their wifi connection. They then probed some of my folders, often reaching a level of 12 folders deep. This was considered research, and they thanked me for my cooperation.
Of course, everyone I tell doesn't believe me.
"Oh no, 3 horny women and only 2 condoms...Thank god I read slashdot"
Yeah, I heard about these! I was gonna build one but I got high and killed my dog and then had sex with corpse! Woo! I'll tell was that a weird feeling when I woke up the next morning!
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Clearly using free-floating weather balloons has a number of limitations and disadvantages.
Now we know that NASA has great plans for its solar-powered airplane -- including acting as a semi-permanent flying repeater-station, but I wonder if smaller, cheaper options might not be available.
For example... what about a much smaller (say 20-30 foot span) autonomous craft designed to soar thermals during the day (while charging its batteries and gaining as much altitude as it can) -- then revert to battery power and/or gradually descend during the hours of darkness.
If the energy required to keep these craft airborn in the longer nights of winter was greater than that availble to be stored during the day then they could carry a fuel-load to power a high-efficiency internal combustion engine (probably a very small diesel engine). Every week or so the craft would have to land for refueling and maintenance -- but that's not a big deal.
Just like the US military's Predator RPV, they could be programmed to land on a runway set aside specially for the purpose.
The cost of a smaller craft, particularly one that wasn't totally reliant on solar-cells, would likely be much less than NASA's efforts -- thus allowing more of them to be built for a given budget.
By using more craft, they could cruise at a much lower altititude than either the weather balloon or the NASA craft.
Using modern composites, low cost GPS, and other "affordable" technologies, such a craft could likely be built for less than US$10K.
Assuming a 50% duty cycle, a fleet of 10 craft could cover a huge area at a much lower cost than towers, and with the ability to dynamically vary the coverage area if required -- simply by repositioning the craft.
The article states that the balloons were launched day in, day out. What about the poor weather days where the wind is gusty and fast? Does the cell coverage on those days get lost?
Over the summer (in the southern hemisphere), I worked to help launch ozone measuring balloons, (same idea, more equipment), and we launched them only in fairly calm conditions. A balloon full of hydrogen is a fairly scary prospect when it's getting blown around. Does this also mean a commercial company will be putting extra pressure on the NWS to launch in potentially unsafe conditions? Scary thought!
This is just great! I was wondering how I was going to get the equipment for my own wireless network!
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i would love to rate the submission as 'funny' - maybe we should start rating submissions.
A friend of mine who does some work for NASA was describing another wacky concept he heard about to expand wireless coverage. The idea is that enough commercial planes are in the air at any moment, and are spaced evenly enough, to provide coverage for much of the country. Certainly major cities would be well covered. And the nice thing is that busy travel times coincide with peak calling hours.
So, how did you get that antenna up there?
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...using free-floating weather balloons has a number of limitations and disadvantages.
Now we know that NASA has great plans for its solar-powered airplane -- including acting as a semi-permanent flying repeater-station, but I wonder if smaller, cheaper options might not be available.
For example... what about a much smaller (say 20-30 foot span) autonomous craft designed to soar thermals during the day (while charging its batteries and gaining as much altitude as it can) -- then revert to battery power and/or gradually descend during the hours of darkness.
If the energy required to keep these craft airborn in the longer nights of winter was greater than that availble to be stored during the day then they could carry a fuel-load to power a high-efficiency internal combustion engine (probably a very small diesel engine). Every week or so the craft would have to land for refueling and maintenance -- but that's not a big deal.
Just like the US military's Predator RPV, they could be programmed to land on a runway set aside specially for the purpose.
The cost of a smaller craft, particularly one that wasn't totally reliant on solar-cells, would likely be much less than NASA's efforts -- thus allowing more of them to be built for a given budget.
By using more craft, they could cruise at a much lower altititude than either the weather balloon or the NASA craft.
Using modern composites, low cost GPS, and other "affordable" technologies, such a craft could likely be built for less than US$10K.
Assuming a 50% duty cycle, a fleet of 10 craft could cover a huge area at a much lower cost than towers, and with the ability to dynamically vary the coverage area if required -- simply by repositioning the craft.
The concept of putting transmitters in the sky isn't new. Iridium has been doing worldwide telephone coverage by using satellites for years. The whole weather balloon receiver thing, while it's an interesting concept, sounds like it would be error prone (the coverage would be inconsistant due to weather balloons going up or down) and costly (To quote the article: "The company estimates its annual operating expenses at $35 million per year. About half of that would go toward equipment: $300 worth for each of the 50,000 or so balloons that would be launched over the course of a year.").
-Valen
You do not have a future as a comedian. Don't quit your day job.
Er, wait...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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.
I hope it's not just a bunch of hot air!
:-)
Most weather balloons actually use Helium. The volume of He in the balloon expands with increased altitude which results in cooling of the gas... No "hot air" in this one as temperatures can drop to minus 125 degrees Celsius in polar mesospheric clouds that form over the summertime polar caps. However, most WX balloons don't get much higher than the stratosphere.
Yes, I realise it was pun... just thought I throw in some factoids.
Where's the photos of Britney Spears?
OH, THAT kind of balloons. Sorry, my mistake.
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Note: I'm posting this comment again so that the user that moderated my previous comment as "Redundant" will be right in a time-reversed parallel universe.
100,000 feet / 186,000 ft/sec = 0.53 * 2 = 1.075 second round trip. Quake would definitely suck. It would be annoying to have an extra second built into every link you click on, but that would probably be livable.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
"Weather baloons" will provide us with some kind of unheard wierd and wonderful service.
Someday man will be able to travel by air!
Soon you will be able to get a machine that will not only be a typewriter but able to calculate as well.
When will the madness end? Do you really believe everything you hear? These are the workings of the devil.
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We are talking about just a few dozon baloons. It dosn't matter where they end up.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Actually not quite...
The balloon flights actually only last about two hours and then the balloons break. In fact the balloon flights in question are done world wide at 0000 and 1200 UCT (Used to be GMT). They record temperature, humidty, air pressure and by triangulating from the ground tracking antenna you can calculate upper level winds.
I'm actually being generous with the length of flight. The time of year has a lot to do with the length of flight. The calculated height of the flight is related very much to the air pressure and for a flight to be valid it generally must be below 100 millibars. (The higher the balloon the lower the millibar reading). A flight reaching 3 millibars is around 120,000 ft. Summer flights usually have balloon bursts below 15 millibars. In winter early bursts, above 100 millibars, can require a second release, provided it happens within a given time window. The weather instrument package is called a radiosonde. Two types of upper air balloon a generally used for launching off the surface. For calmer winds a soft cheap latex balloon called a Kaysam is used and for adverse wind conditions or launch from a ship at sea a severe weather balloon called a Totex is used. (Totex is more rugged and more expensive)
They say they plan to hitch a ride on the existing balloons. The short duration is going to be a problem. The balloons expand as they rise and then go BOOM
I worked as an Aerological Observer for Environment Canada at a variety of Arctic Weather stations for about six years sending these suckers up there! There are long duration high altitude balloons out there, but the upper air program the article refers to doesn't use them, and the balloon shown in the photograph is of the variety to quickly put a few "holes" in the flight duration claim!
Watch the investor's money go BOOM!
Hemos didn't make the joke. The person who submitted the artical did.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
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Using 3x10^8 m/s for speed of light, I make it 0.1 ms = 100 usec one-way to the balloon, i.e. 0.2 ms for ground-to-ground via the balloon. So the wireless part will be fine as far as Quake is concerned - it's just the other parts of the trip that may add latency.
In practice, latency may be much worse than this - look at GPRS, where latencies are many hundreds of milliseconds (often half a second) even though the wireless distances are much shorter. Wireless links use a lot of extra error correction and in the case of GSM/GPRS, packets are sometimes split into much smaller frames that are then interleaved with other frames - this is because GSM is voice-centric and this works well for voice. Not sure if GPRS has a better coding that avoids this, but if this balloon system is designed for data it should avoid some of the overhead.
And continuing the trend in bad jokes about this story:
It just sounds like a lot of pie in the sky to me.
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WTF is going on today?
Didn't the NSA, et. al. consider this prior to launching satellites for Sigint?
There are several reasons they nixed it.
Anyway, I'm sick of wireless. Maybe I can get my friend John to get some fiber splicing equipment again and run fiber to my house.
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In November, the company won the rights to use a designated frequency of 1.4 MHz in a Federal Communications Commission auction.
I HOPE that's a typo, because if it isn't, that's smack-dab in the middle of the AM Broadcast Band (1400kHz), and I would be furious if the FCC was auctioning off spots on a precious resource like that to a bunch of nuts with weather balloons...
The weather baloons are all sent up at the same times. At least 4 times a day ( at 00,06,12 and 18 UTC ) but how do you get a continuous coverage out of that ?
In November, the company won the rights to use a designated frequency of 1.4 MHz in a Federal Communications Commission auction.
Correct me if I'm wrong (if so, it's waaaay past my bedtime -- that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!), but isn't 1.4 MHz right smack dab in the middle of the existing terrestrial AM radio band of 530 kHz (0.53 MHz) to 1.72 MHz?
If so, wouldn't a terrestrial AM tower blasting out its carrier at that frequency (1.39 or 1.41 MHz) totally blot out the signal from such a balloon?
Better alternatives? (Score:5, Interesting)
by NewtonsLaw on Tuesday February 19, @04:01AM (#3030892)
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Clearly using free-floating weather balloons has a number of limitations and disadvantages.
Now we know that NASA has great plans for its solar-powered airplane -- including acting as a semi-permanent flying repeater-station, but I wonder if smaller, cheaper options might not be available.
For example... what about a much smaller (say 20-30 foot span) autonomous craft designed to soar thermals during the day (while charging its batteries and gaining as much altitude as it can) -- then revert to battery power and/or gradually descend during the hours of darkness.
If the energy required to keep these craft airborn in the longer nights of winter was greater than that availble to be stored during the day then they could carry a fuel-load to power a high-efficiency internal combustion engine (probably a very small diesel engine). Every week or so the craft would have to land for refueling and maintenance -- but that's not a big deal.
Just like the US military's Predator RPV, they could be programmed to land on a runway set aside specially for the purpose.
The cost of a smaller craft, particularly one that wasn't totally reliant on solar-cells, would likely be much less than NASA's efforts -- thus allowing more of them to be built for a given budget.
By using more craft, they could cruise at a much lower altititude than either the weather balloon or the NASA craft.
Using modern composites, low cost GPS, and other "affordable" technologies, such a craft could likely be built for less than US$10K.
Assuming a 50% duty cycle, a fleet of 10 craft could cover a huge area at a much lower cost than towers, and with the ability to dynamically vary the coverage area if required -- simply by repositioning the craft.
Who run Barter Town?
...if you were at the eye of a tornado that had sucked in a few hundred of these :-)
--put one of the disposable node widgets on the top of every powerline pole when it makes a bend in the road. Keep line of sight that way. Easy for the techs to aim, too. There are millions of these poles all over the nation. No new cable needed, and they won't get lost and have to be re launched all the time.
100k feet = 18 miles. Currently, the cell sites that I'm responsible for are at maximum 20 miles apart. A site 18 miles distant is going to provide zero coverage to anyone inside a building.
In addition, 2 balloon sites, is going to have jack sh!t for capacity. Assuming these weather balloons are even capable of lifting our smallest GSM equipment (which is far more than the 6 pount limit mentioned in the article), each ballon would be have a maximum of 29 voice channels. That's enough to cover a busy city block, or a tiny town.
Well duh. Are there going to be more than 30 people using their phone in that 100k square miles? You betcha.This is a moumentally stupid idea.
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Weather balloons don't use hot air. They use helium. Hot air wouldn't stay hot for very long at the altitudes weather balloons reach.
but something similar would be very useful, and cheap.
Heck, even the army is doing something like this.
..you'd realize that that 20 miles accounts for the possiblity of objects interferring between the stations. When you shoot the signal straight up you are going to get more effective distance. Whether that effective distance is 18 miles remains to be seen. Even so, it does seem like a generally wacky and impracticle idea.
Why on earth don't these idiots approach all of the major airlines and mount the boxes to all airplanes. The airlines could charge for the usage and boost their profits. Think of how many airplanes are in the air over the usa at any given moment. Now the trick part is to design a cheap phased array antenna for the client side radio.
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Not for the data that the baloons give you. The key information that the baloon gives you is the wind, temperature, and humidity at different altitudes. Unfortunately, satellites are not currently capable of providing this for different altitudes. The data is important for weather forecasters, and particularly important for aviation weather forecasts.
The balloons themselves are made of latex, a natural substance derived from plants. They decay in ultraviolet light and break down quite naturally. An airplane hitting one of the balloons probably wouldn't notice. An airplane hitting one of the payloads might suffer some damage, but the construction of those radiosondes is for lightness, not durability. How much punishment do you need to take, riding up into the sky under a balloon?
Of course, all the balloons come down by themselves within a rather short time. Sheer UV and ozone embrittlement of the balloon envelope will do it if nothing else does. They burst and come down in rather small pieces (if you want to see what happens you can buy a balloon from one of the scientific surplus houses which sell them, and inflate it with your shop vac until it explodes).
What gets me is the claim that the payloads are unrecoverable. How hard could it be to equip each one with a mylar Rogallo kite and have it aim toward its ground station once the balloon bursts and lets it start gliding down? A 5:1 lift/drag ratio means a range of about 100 miles starting from 100,000 feet. What do you need to guide it, one model-airplane servo? This isn't rocket science.
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Wouldn't a tethered balloon be a lot more effective, as well as reusable?