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socrates1998

I am curious, why can't you tie the balloons to the ground and just have them stay in the same place permanently until they lose their air?

Could you then create a continual service over a grid like network of these balloons? Or are the balloons too expensive to do this?

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The balloons only have so much buoyancy, and 60,000 feet of cable would end up being pretty heavy. Not to mention that the cables would be a hazard to aircraft navigation.

And people could steal the equipment by pulling the baloon down.

You could always make the cable out of balloons. But I guess that would be rather expensive.

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