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>while Zuck loses interest quickly
Loon was a google X project.
That being said this is a great point - it wasn't a project that had the blessings of an ultra billionaire like Musk or zuckerberg.

While atmospheric winds are certainly not stable, they can be modeled well enough to pretty accurately control the direction that the balloons move in. This was one of the biggest advantages that Loon had (basically free to travel large distances) and I wonder what, if anything will come from their passive control research. It's also a factor that didn't really benefit their type of business at all. I think they should have tried something related to cargo instead. I don't know enough about why they didn't.

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