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Google's Balloon-Powered Internet for Everyone
- luckydude 11y agoI must be especially dense this morning because while I get that low altitude solves the latency problem of satellites, I don't see how these work - won't the wind just blow them away? I suppose you could tie them down but a 90,000 tether is going to weigh quite a bit and how do you stop planes from flying into it? Am I missing something obvious?
- luckydude 11y agoSo I found this which sheds some light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQDQ3Ps_-b4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQDQ3Ps_-b4 tl;dr: they just let them ride the wind.