... In my GOOGLE-full Balloon

Google launches Internet-beaming balloons | General Headlines | Comcast:

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) —

Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online. 

 It was the culmination of 18 months' work on what Google calls Project Loon, in recognition of how whacky the idea may sound. Developed in the secretive X lab that came up with a driverless car and web-surfing eyeglasses, the flimsy helium-filled inflatables beam the Internet down to earth as they sail past on the wind. 

 Still in their experimental stage, the balloons were the first of thousands that Google's leaders eventually hope to launch 20 kilometers (12 miles) into the stratosphere in order to bridge the gaping digital divide between the world's 4.8 billion unwired people and their 2.2 billion plugged-in counterparts. 

 If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of laying fiber cable, dramatically increasing Internet usage in places such as Africa and Southeast Asia.

 It may never replace Cable Connections, and who knows what the data transfer speed is, but ...
WOW!  What a concept!

Cable Internet connections are expensive even if we live in a major metropolitan area.  But if you are a sheep-herder in New Zealand (for example), that's an option which may not be available.

Now Internet Giant GOOGLE is experimenting with a way to bring internet connectivity to the mosr remote regions on earth.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?  It rather depends on how many Pigmy Bantus establish Facebook pages, I guess.

One thing is for sure .. even though it's a "concept project", nobody will be able to say that it will never get off the ground.

Step aside, Wright Brothers; you've just been pwned.