{"id":43173,"date":"2013-06-18T17:57:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/google-begins-launching-internet-beaming-balloons\/43173\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:57:23","slug":"google-begins-launching-internet-beaming-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/google-begins-launching-internet-beaming-balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Martha Mendoza and Nick Perry<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/business\/technology\/article\/Google-begins-launching-Internet-beaming-balloons-4602494.php#photo-4788768\">Associated Press<\/a><br \/>June 18, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet\u00a0online.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand, where up to 50 volunteer households are already beginning to receive the Internet briefly on their home computers via translucent helium balloons that sail by on the wind 12 miles above\u00a0Earth.<\/p>\n<p>While the project is still in the very early testing stages, Google hopes eventually to launch thousands of the thin, polyethylene-film inflatables and bring the Internet to some of the more remote parts of the globe, narrowing the digital divide between the 2.2 billion people who are online and the 4.8 billion who aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of installing fiber-optic cable, dramatically increasing Internet usage in places such as Africa and Southeast\u00a0Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a huge moonshot, a really big goal to go after,\u201d said project leader Mike Cassidy. \u201cThe power of the Internet is probably one of the most transformative technologies of our\u00a0time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/business\/technology\/article\/Google-begins-launching-Internet-beaming-balloons-4602494.php#photo-4788768\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      &lt;!&#8211; <\/p>\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n<p> &#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2013  at  11:51 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/google-begins-launching-internet-beaming-balloons\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Mendoza and Nick PerryAssociated PressJune 18, 2013 Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet\u00a0online. Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand, where up to 50 volunteer households are already beginning to receive the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}