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I am curious, why can't you tie the balloons to the ground and just have them stay in the same place permanently until they lose their air? Could you then crea

by socrates1998 12y ago

I am curious, why can't you tie the balloons to the ground and just have them stay in the same place permanently until they lose their air? Could you then create a continual service over a grid like network of these balloons? Or are the balloons too expensive to do this?

teraflop 12y ago
The balloons only have so much buoyancy, and 60,000 feet of cable would end up being pretty heavy. Not to mention that the cables would be a hazard to aircraft navigation.
- juice13 12y ago
  And people could steal the equipment by pulling the baloon down.
- computer 12y ago
  You could always make the cable out of balloons. But I guess that would be rather expensive.