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The dream of flight Man soars 200 miles in lawn chair propelled by party balloons

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2008-07-06 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
 
...balloons But not just anyone can come down nine hours later some 200 miles away via a controlled descent achieved by shooting a few of the balloons with a BB gun Here's yesterday's Associated Press story about the flight (above), the poor man's response to Fusion Man's jet-powered iteration featured here yesterday. U.S. man flying lawn chair...
 
Tags: lawn chair, chair, balloons, party balloons, lawn chair flight, couch, couch hoped, kent couch, flight
 
 
 
 
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Google May Use Balloons as Cell Phone Towers

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2008-02-24 21:07:32 by Patrick Birmingham in Cell Phone Digest
...balloons for wireless communications using Space Data Corporation current technologies Space Data Corp. currently launches 10 balloons a day across the Southern United States to provide telecommunications services to oil companies and truckers. The balloons fly 20 miles into the stratosphere covering thousands of square miles below. Each...
 
Tags: space data, space data balloons, balloons, cell phone, cell phone towers, space data claims, electronic gear, space data corp, electronic gear cost
 
 
 
 
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Sunhope - Solar Balloons for anytime anywhere power

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2008-04-11 08:12:30 by HASH0x8b9a05c in Newlaunches.com
...balloons are as low-impact as power plants get, since their infrastructure is composed entirely of a control panel, a helium supply cable, and a power cable. Residential possibilities are great since one or two balloons can fulfill all the power requirements of a house. Cory and Gurfil have constructed several prototypes and have conducted...
 
Tags: solar balloons, balloons, cost, low-cost deployable system, energy, harness solar energy, gurfil, cory, joseph cory
 
 
 
 
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Priest Takes Off Using Party Balloons, GPS to Find God (Literally) [Bad Luck Or Bad Design]

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2008-04-22 14:30:00 by posted by Pantha in
...balloons. His first try was a success, traveling 68 miles for 4 hours and 15 minutes. His second, however, has probably ended in disasterafter he took off with a GPS that he didn't know how to use The first flight took him from the Brazilian town of Ampére to San Antonio, in Argentina, complete with tin foil pants and a DIY seat. He landed...
 
Tags: party balloons, balloons, gps, thousand party balloons, bad luck, bad, people, flight, flight distance
 
 
 
 
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Priest Takes Off Using Party Balloons, GPS to Find God (Literally) [Bad Luck Or Bad Design]

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2008-04-22 10:30:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...balloons. His first try was a success, traveling 68 miles for 4 hours and 15 minutes. His second, however, has probably ended in disasterafter he took off with a GPS that he didn't know how to use The first flight took him from the Brazilian town of Ampére to San Antonio, in Argentina, complete with tin foil pants and a DIY seat. He landed...
 
Tags: party balloons, balloons, gps, thousand party balloons, bad luck, bad, people, flight, flight distance
 
 
 
 
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Google bursts a few balloons for better service.

2008-02-22 07:35:27 by HASH0x88f3770 in Newlaunches.com
 
...balloons carrying small (micro) base stations about 20 miles up in the air for providing connectivity to truckers and oil companies. The Internet giant which is now pushing into wireless services has considered contracting with Space Data or even buying the firm, according to one personGoogle believes balloons like these could radically...
 
Tags: balloons, space data corp, space data, balloons burst, sends balloons, payload, farmers, electronic payload, google
 
 
 
 
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Gigantic solar balloons soak up the rays

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2008-04-10 16:46:24 by AdamFrucci in DVICE
...Balloons. These gigantic, helium-filled balloons would be tethered to the ground and hoisted far up into the air, allowing them to generated electricity and send it back down to earth without taking up space and with as small an environmental impact as possible Constructed of a "new fabric coated with photovoltaic solar cells," these...
 
Tags: solar balloons, balloons, light-as-air balloons, air, traditional solar panels, pretty awesome, photovoltaic solar cells, pretty, environmental impact
 
 
 
 
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Solar Balloons, Too Good To Be True Adopted [Energy]

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2008-04-11 11:00:00 by Mark Wilson in Gizmodo
...balloons, we think, "I never should have had children." But these solar balloons are a lot more promising than their carnival counterparts. Constructed of photovoltaic fabric, the soft tank is filled with helium and tethered by power wire above a home, saving space on the ground while optimizing sun exposure. But it's not just the physical...
 
Tags: solar balloons, balloons, energy, clean energy, traditional solar panels, sun exposure, carnival counterparts, power wire, photovoltaic fabric
 
 
 
 
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Google and Microsoft Look Toward Weather Balloons

2008-02-21 21:19:13 by Brian Heater in Gearlog
 
...balloons--big ones, and lots of them Google is currently in talks with Space Data Corp., looking to use the Arizona company's hydrogen-filled balloons as a way of providing wireless coverage to the country's more rural areas. According to the Seattle Post Intelligencer , Microsoft is experimenting with a similar scheme. Bill Gates has...
 
Tags: google, company, arizona company, balloons, space data corp, internet sky race, seattle post intelligencer, wireless coverage, extend american