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Googles Project Loon can now launch up to 20 balloons per day, and they fly 10 times

Submitted by: Hologram @ 10:28 AM | Saturday, November 22, 2014 | (url: http://venturebea...)

Thursday, Google shared an update from Project Loon, the company's initiative to bring high-speed Internet access to remote areas of the world via hot air balloons. Google says it now has the ability to launch up to 20 of these balloons per day. This is in part possible because the company has improved its autofill equipment to a point where it can fill a balloon in under five minutes. This is a major achievement, given that Google says filling a Project Loon balloon with enough air so that it is ready for flight is the equivalent of inflating 7,000 party balloons.


11-22-14 - 10:44 AM
:tinfoil:
11-22-14 - 11:25 AM
finally, someone has made a condom large enough for me
11-22-14 - 11:30 AM
yes

soon nobody will be out of reach of the jewish indoctrination ray guns

yessss
11-22-14 - 12:14 PM
there's only a finite amount of helium in this world and a lot of scientists feel it should be reserved for space travel. :(
11-22-14 - 12:29 PM
dammit... now i will never beable to make my flying arrow back to camp like those guys did the mario bro in the sky
[youtube]jOTu4s0nzJM[/youtube]

but i just want to do the arrow on a string so no matter what the wind is doing it always points back to camp :)
11-22-14 - 12:37 PM
ah
what happens after the ballon no longer "last".
11-22-14 - 12:40 PM
Originally posted by Anguish  
there's only a finite amount of helium in this world and a lot of scientists feel it should be reserved for space travel. :(


*hugs*

where does it go then? :o
11-22-14 - 12:42 PM
Originally posted by Anguish  
there's only a finite amount of helium in this world and a lot of scientists feel it should be reserved for space travel. :(


I'm a scientist and I think we should mine the moon for its helium. Take that, uninspired scientists!
11-22-14 - 12:53 PM
Originally posted by SeVeReD  
ah
what happens after the ballon no longer "last".


it descends and a parachute deploys
11-22-14 - 01:56 PM
Originally posted by Anguish  
there's only a finite amount of helium in this world and a lot of scientists feel it should be reserved for space travel. :(
I think this uses a relatively insignificant amount of helium

Helium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally posted by Anguish  
*hugs*

where does it go then? :o

space
11-22-14 - 02:10 PM
helium floats away
there's a huge push to capture helium used in industrial settings since we passed peak helium last decade
11-22-14 - 02:29 PM
It is a well known fact that Helium comes from the Helium wells in Tierra Del Fuego. Many innocent children have lost their voices working in these wells extracting this nobel gas.
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