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Internet-By-Airship Scheduled For Trial Next Month

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 15, 2004 @12:47PM from the trial-balloon-ha-ha dept.

Reader ScrewTivo points to this Economist article on one of my favorite potential delivery means for high-speed Net access: stratosphere-dwelling airships. This version, from Sanswire Networks, is dubbed a "Stratellite," -- and one is scheduled to launch next month. As the submitter writes, "It's basically a blimp that thinks it's a geostationary satellite floating at 65K feet!"

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Re:Ouch! by Creepy+Crawler · 2004-12-15 12:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Like I need you to rub it in, AC!
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Re:am I just a naysayer? by flacco · 2004-12-15 14:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

fixing things that aren't broke is what the technology industry is all about.
except for microsoft, which is all about not fixing what is broke.

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