google Google introduces Project Loon: Balloon-Powered Internet for Everyone

[Crisp]

Loon for all!

Balloon-Powered Internet For Everyone

What is Project Loon?

Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. But two-thirds of the world?s population does not yet have 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 coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters.

http://www.google.com/loon

[Crisp]

I wonder what the latency will be like.

[ashpowell]

How would this work though?

[ashpowell]

nvm just read the website..

It all seems like something they'd release for their april fools jokes

[Growled Member]

Good name for it because it does seem crazy on the surface.

[Growled Member]

I wonder what the latency will be like.

 

If it's satellite based it will be terrible. Not sure it will be, though. 

[_neutrino Veteran]

I wonder what the latency will be like.

I was thinking about this as well and i can only think that perhaps it would be the same as Satellite internet.