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Disposable paper hot-air balloon for lift, retractable antenna? Or perhaps better yet: disposable paper kite?

• ryanmarsh 8y ago
  Your comment, while I assume you earnestly meant, is enigmatic of the gap between what the lay person may think works at sea and the very harsh and unforgiving reality of the Sea. Source: my father was an engineer at a marine engineering company
  • mhb 8y ago
    I like the wording of your comment, but I think you mean emblematic instead of enigmatic.
    • ryanmarsh 8y ago
      Yes, you're right. That's embarrassing.
  • e12e 8y ago
    Hehe. I left out that I was thinking of a system that used all the environmental monitoring to deploy such a disposable contraption only in calm/good weather - but then it would not be a substitute for satellite data - mote an opportunistic system for bulk backup.