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With all the nonsense yesterday about the military's lost ballon and what a boondoggle the whole program was, I was thinking they should be repurposed to provid
by ck2 11y ago
With all the nonsense yesterday about the military's lost ballon and what a boondoggle the whole program was, I was thinking they should be repurposed to provide internet.
- azurezyq 11y agoDo you have the context of that thing?
- fixermark 11y agohttp://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/2015/10/28/f-16s-tracking-blimp-loose/74746356/ http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/2015/10/28/f-16s... Long story short: an aerostat broke loose of its mooring in Aberdeen Proving Ground and floated into Pennsylvania. It caused a bit of damage (trailing mooring cable fouled power lines and knocked out electricity to tens of thousands of customers), but went down in a field.