Well can you imagine the whole planet online?? You cant? Mmm then you should start imagining.. Because Google has successfully completed the first step towards it. i.e by making the big beaming balloon. It is translucent,jelly-fish balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny Pumpkins as they rose into blue winter skies above lake Tekapo in ChristChurch.
It was a culmination of 18-months on what Google calls Project Loon in recognition of how different the idea may sound. It was developed in a secretive X lab that came with a driverless cars and web surfing eyeglasses. ,the flimsy helium-filled inflatables beam the internet down to earth as they sail past on the wind.
Now this developed balloon is 1 of the thousands that are to be launched 20 Kms into the stratosphere in order to bridge the gaping between the 4.8 billion unwired people and their 2.2 wired components or plugged in counter parts.
It will basically will reduce the charges of laying fiber cables across Africa and Southeast Asia. The first person to get the Google Baloon Internet access was Charles Nimmo. When asked about it. He said that his experience was bemusing after he was one of the 50 locals who signed up to be a tester for a project that was so secret, no one would explain to them what was happening. Technicians came to the volunteers' homes and attached to the outside walls bright red receivers the size of basketballs and resembling giant Google Map pins...
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