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Too on March 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: To the Pirate Bay: a modest proposal

Who said a UAV has to be an airplane? Why not a balloon/blimp? They should be able to stay airborne passively. Then powering the server is another problem but with a blimp weight isn't really that big of an issue.

dkokelley on March 22, 2012 [–]

It has more to do with control in high winds, but you're right in that LTA craft are probably better suited for the task.

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