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Re:How to Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Inte... by tomjen3 on Monday January 31, 2011 @12:13PM (#2162257)
Wouldn't it be an order of magnitude easier to make a simple gas powered balloon? You could hook it up with an altitude sensor and make sure it doesn't drift away.
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Re:How to Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Inte... by jasongullickson on Monday January 31, 2011 @04:02PM (#2163155)
Simpler yes, but where does the gas come from?
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Re:How to Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Inte... by borism on Monday January 31, 2011 @07:03PM (#2163767)
how do you make sure it doesn't drift away?

unless you combine the plane and the balloon into the zeppelin...

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