2021-01-23
Very sad to see this. I worked on the @Loon4all radio back around 2014 and though I declined an offer to join GoogleX, I always hoped this would succeed as it seemed such an elegant solution working passively with minimal energy use. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” but not a viable one
Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme. — DO you detect something missing?
2021-01-22
Very sad to see this. I worked on the @Loon4all radio back around 2014 and though I declined an offer to join GoogleX, I always hoped this would succeed as it seemed such an elegant solution working passively with minimal energy use. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” but not a viable one
Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme. — DO you detect something missing?