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Project Loon, the once-Google-now-Alphabet broadband balloon project, is to be trialled in Indonesia next year. The company has announced it's secured cooperation with the populous island nation's three mobile operators – Telkomsel, XL Axiata, and Indosat – to run the tests. Project Loon veep Mike Cassidy blogs that the …

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  1. shaolin cookie

    Haze

    They need to make those balloons fire resistant, and the signals to go through thick haze.

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  2. Your alien overlord - fear me

    Hope they're not 2nd hand NORAD balloons.

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  3. Trigonoceps occipitalis

    "with lots of remnant jungle"

    Is this a comment on the slash and burn farming or just serendipity?

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