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Broadband Barrage Balloons

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moon-over-my-hammy dept.

alnya writes "BBC Online are reporting a story of a York-based company called SkyLinc who are floating baloons connected to a fibre optic pole which, they say, can deliver broadband access at "more than double the speed of most broadband services currently available" - whatever that means. Only 18 balloons would be necessarily to blow BT out the water (according to the article). Is this on the horizon?"

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  1. The English are so charmingly eccentric by Hairy_Potter · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    While most Americans consider blimps only suitable for promotional purposes and overhead golf shots, the merry olde English are trying to find some use for the obsolete gasbags.

    It's really no surprise, the country loves it's eccentrics, from Sinclair's little electric scooter to the Osborne luggable to the Robin Reliant to their steam powered subway trains.

    Their standard of living would improve if they ever upgrade their technology to at least 1970's level, but then their little country wouldn't have the Disneyesque appeal.

  2. I've tested high speed balloons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Specifically, I rubbed my dick all over your mom's tits vigorously.

  3. Re:oh sweet 80's OFFTOPIC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    -1 Stupid, yes
    -1 Fucking Gay, sure
    -1 Posted by an Asshole, absolutely

    But Offtopic?!! wtf? I don't think so, cunts.