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The Register is pleased to reveal that Google has heard of radio-astronomy, and will work with astronomers to avoid flashing its broadband balloon radios in their sky-eyes. Project Loon is an ambitious plan to attach 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radio sets to meteorological-style balloons, lifting the transceivers above air traffic lanes …

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  1. graeme leggett Silver badge

    Shocking

    ad giant's engineers are “slightly horrified by the possibility that we might be disrupting Google's brand and image”.

    there, fixed that one

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    1. Robert Helpmann??
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      Childcatcher

      Re: Shocking

      ... but only slightly.

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  2. TeeCee Gold badge
    WTF?

    Google's services.

    Brought to you by a bunch of Loons.

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  3. Manas Straw
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    Kudos!

    To Richard Chirgwin, for working in the link to the Smithsonian article. I just spent a very fruitful 25 mins on the intertubes.

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  4. cortland

    Cockerdile?

    That's nawt a loon, THIS is a loon. http://www.usscusk.com/loon.htm

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