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>>34606120 (OP)
Looks like google is really investing in the cloud ;)

>>34606174
anyone? eh?

>>34606174
top lel

>>34606174
cloud is not balloon try harder carlos

So what's to stop these things from floating into space?
>tfw martians take up google's bandwith

SKYNET

>>34606355
theres no air in space

>>34606355
gravity
are you retarded

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> stratosphere
> balloons
tfw

>no source link

>>34606364
correct, it's a vacuum.
Now that you've clarified that care explaining or linking to me an explanation as to why a balloon can't stay in a vacuum? Ballons float 'cause what's nside them is lighter than air right? Is that correlated? I can't physics.

>>34606391
http://lmbtfy.com/?q=Google%27s+Internet+Balloon+Project

>>34606375
They defy gravity when they float, whats to stop them from floating out of our atmosphere?

>>34606174
>Magic School Bus on TLC

Holy fuck.

>>34606396
They would burst in a vacuum.

>>34606387
There's nothing wrong with that. Even most commercial airliners cruise in the lower stratosphere.

>>34606409
Space gravity.

I'll give them three weeks before they're shot down by rednecks.

>>34606396
I really have to explain?
weights to counteract the helium, so they don't go above a certain height.

>>34606428
ahh I see.
>>34606433
seems legit

Buttnet online

>>34606409
A SPECIFCALLY REUGLATED LIGHTER THAN AIR GAS MIXTURE

>>34606409
They don't defy gravity, they are less dense than the air around them so they float above it. Like oil on water. Gravity still keeps them from floating off into space

>>34606430
They'd get whipped around by the jetstreams and would probably be thousands of miles off course in the middle of the Sargasso Sea or some shit in three days.

>>34606409
Air density.

oh god why are most of you so dumb

>>34606460
Floating == defying gravity
And I know how balloons work as a principle but surely they would stop moving away from earth when there is no air to be lighter than, which would be outside out atmosphere and in space.

>>34606487
WEIGHTS

>>34606484
Dumb is a varied term. I can't into physics but that's a specific area of the sciences.

>>34606502
Possibly. Most possible when combined with
this guy's >>34606468 point.

my laptop's wifi struggles to communicate 30 feet away

>>34606487
What do they teach you Americans in school

Similar to my thesis.

Can't go into too much details. However due to non-gusty conditions, and low wind speeds in the stratosphere, a Helium filled blimp can stay afloat fairly well. Unlike my airship which is anchored, Google's balloon would not matter if it drifted of course too much; as the microwave/radiowaves sent have a fairly long wavelength to be recieved/transmitted by the balloon.

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They're calling it Project Loon.
How apropos!

>>34606487
No dude.
The balloon will never reach such a point because its mass isn't as negligible as you're making it out to be.

Plus, the moon orbits around the Earth because of the Earth's gravitational field and it's well outside of the Earth's atmosphere by any definition. The only thing keeping it from smashing into us is basically angular velocity.

>>34606487
>floating == defying gravity

lol wat

>>34606487
The balloons are buoyant you fucking retard.
Gravity is still acting on the balloon.
It is exerting the same force on the balloon as it is on the air.

>>34606531
>implying I'm a yank
I was taught the basics about gravity and stars etc. It's in further education that they bother teaching anything in detail.

>>34606566
Gravity pulls things towards Earth
Balloon floats away from the Earth

So what speeds will they be able to get?

>>34606606
>It's in further education that they bother teaching anything in detail.
This is what they'll tell you until you get your doctorate.
After that, you still won't get a lot of stuff. Then they'll tell you to get a job and then, in the professional world, things will start to come together.

>>34606438
>bullets reach the stratosphere
u wot m8

>>34606635
100 MEGABOTNETS PER SECOND

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This project deserves a major award and I know just the one!

>>34606561
Damn, forgot about moon.
>>34606577
Yes. Balloons are floaty.
Yes gravity is still acting on the balloon and the air.
All you've done is clarified already established facts and called me retarded...hmm.

>>34606120 (OP)
>How could the balloons stay aloft indefinitely
umm, by not leaking

>>How could the balloons stay aloft indefinitely (read: lengthy periods of time -- not literally forever)

It's probably a good thing that they come down every now and then, the down time could be used to update the infrastructure. In 2070 you don't want to be using internet that relies on 2013 hardware mounted on a balloon.

>>34606677
>Implying rednecks aren't allowed in fighter jets
>Implying anyone who isn't a redneck is allowed to operate US military equipment

>>34606396
umm, balloons float because they are filled with helium, which is lighter than air. vacuum is lighter than helium. the helium balloon will conveniently place itself between the air and the vacuum

>>34606705
Oh my fucking god get the fuck out, summerfaggot

>>34606409
nothing defies gravity idiot

>>34606750
> 2013
> depending on anything mounted on a balloon