Two balloons

[Violet]

Loon:

http://static.progressivemediagroup.com/uploads/imagelibrary/cbr/20130609-IMG_5957.jpg (http://ecommerce.cbronline.com/news/google-trials-project-loon-to-offer-internet-through-balloons-170613)

And:

http://georgesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/60s_tv_shows_the_prisoner_large.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Ffr1U7KMY)

[Chip]

I'm sorry, excuse my ignorance but what am I looking at? And what is the big picture?
Sometimes I just need help even if it means exposing my own ignorance.
Thank you

[Octavusprime]

If you click the photos it links to an article.

In short: The balloons are being tested by google to provide Internet to remote areas. Cool stuff.

Unless of course it is a trap to allow the NSA to spy on those in the most remote areas of our country!

[RunningDeer]

Thanks, Violet. Interesting to note in the first vid, Goggle uses a young child to promote it's internet access.


Introducing Project Loon
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Published on Jun 13, 2013

Introducing the latest moonshot from Google[x]: balloon-powered Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill in coverage gaps and bring people back online after disasters. To learn more, visit: http://google.com/loon.



Balloon powered internet: Google X tests Project Loon pilot helium balloon in New Zealand

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Published on Jun 15, 2013

Codenamed Project Loon, Google has released helium filled balloons into the sky in the heart of New Zealand's South Island as part of an experiment to get the planet online by beaming the internet down to earth. The balloons, which are fifteen metres in diameter when inflated, fly twice as high as a commercial plane, and are able to send internet access to the ground below with similar speeds to most 3G networks, local media has reported. Google X, the team behind Google Glass and driverless cars, is the brains behind the project which was officially unveiled in Christchurch. Report by Katie Lamborn.

Links below are from post #1 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?60211-Two-balloons&p=689698&viewfull=1#post689698):

"Google trials 'Project Loon' to offer internet through balloons (http://ecommerce.cbronline.com/news/google-trials-project-loon-to-offer-internet-through-balloons-170613)"

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[Violet]

I'm sorry, excuse my ignorance but what am I looking at? And what is the big picture?
Sometimes I just need help even if it means exposing my own ignorance.
Thank you

Well, when I first heard of the project I did not think of white but colourful balloons. When I saw the picture I was immediately reminded of the Prisoner, an episode which really revolves around the all-seeing eye. The white balloon kills those who resist (at least that's what I understood it to do).

[Violet]

@Paula: perhaps because truth comes out of the child's mouth

[RunningDeer]

@Paula: perhaps because truth comes out of the child's mouth
Yes, that's the subtle psychology used in their advertising.