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Airships Tested As Two-Way Telecom Beacons
sgups writes "The Toronto Star (no registration required:)) is reporting about this firm which will supply spherical airships that will be used as high-flying telecommunications platforms to supply two-way Internet access across the United States and into Mexico and Canada. The article explains little of the technology though."
the airship explodes cause it was filled with hydrogen & millions of internet weenies are left stranded with no pr0n
You tried your best, & you failed miserably,
The lesson is:
Never Try
Now the government can use the airships as excuses for what you "really" saw in the sky at night, not a UFO. Good bye weather balloon excuse.
Of course, if they succeed, we'll have big potatoid wafers the size of dinner plates.
Stefan
"spherical airships"
The Hindenburg and Goodyear blimps ruined the good name of blimp forever. Now were are reduced to puzzling out such obtuse synonyms as "spherical airships".
Sure, you can put balloons up there, but there are factors such as weather, acts of God...
snipers.
"The Toronto Star (no registration required:)) "
What? Registration not required? What am I supposed to bitch about now?
Well, hell, guess I have to read the article now.
*SIGH*
Sent from your iPad.
You can find more information on the spherical communication technology of airships at this site.
Oh, wait, that was communication technology of spherical airships. That information is found here.
1. Denial of service
2. Fried router
3. Blimp attack
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Spherical airships running on Volkswagen engines for the transmission of spam and pr0n. Hmmmmm...I've had ideas like this before. Usually after several bong hits....
GNU terrorists have hijacked the WiFi blimp and have already bounced into Microsoft's headquarters five times.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
"And then it popped see, and my voice went all squeaky. My friends looked at me and they all laughed. I was so ashamed. I'm asking for 90 billion dollars in damages."
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"OK, there's no weather in stratosphere, but you're closer to God ... :-/
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Well, it is the Toronto Star.
The Globe and Mail is read by the people who own the country. (It's Toronto's national newspaper, except for the National which is Toronto's other national newspaper.) The Toronto Star is read by the people who whine when they don't run the country. The Toronto Sun is read by the people who don't care who runs the country, so long as she has big tits on page 3. Weeklies like NOW offer insight into: politics or performance art? (With the establishment's hand up their sock-puppet bum.)
-- Adapted from Yes, Prime Minister
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
The spherical airship is filled with non-flammable helium and has no external gondola for crew. Instead, the pilots sit in an igloo-like cabin inside the sphere.
:)
If it leaks, the pilot will get a rather squeeky voice.