Crazy story, if you haven't seen it. Google is into the idea of floating hot air balloons in order to provide Internet and cell service to rural areas of the Southwest. Google would work with Space Data, a company that already launches 10 balloons every day.
The main problem is that the balloons last only 24 hours before they get too high in the atmosphere and explode. The wireless components fall back to earth and they are retrieved to use again.
As strange as it seems, it's an incredibly creative solution to the problem of rural web/cell access. Can't wait until we find another use for the beeper or the record player.
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