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Based on some of the comments, I presume there were invaluable lessons, and there are brilliant things to come from this venture (not in the form of Loon, LLC). There were also some painful lessons and not so pleasant things from this project. Regardless, this effort and “moonshots” as they call them are better than not testing at all. “The only right answer is test.”


yes, of course. valuable lessons were learned and humanity’s knowledge has been greatly augmented. /s

it still amazes me how much press google gets for basically vaporware. one could make the point that all google does, except ads, is a moonshot.




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