Sayan’s BlogWorld

This is a EU-funded project to develop broadband capability from aerial platforms like airships, solar-powered aircraft, etc. Sounds good but I wonder what happens in case of adverse weather like storms in case of low-altitude platforms or the jet streams in case of high-altitude platforms? I couldn’t find the answer in the site.

I had read about this earlier while writing a research paper sometime back but I thought that Meteor-burst or packet-radio communication is better bet than a technology subject to the vagaries of high-altitude weather.

Onions in space? Vegetarianism may be an ‘universal’ phenomenon. Scientists may have peeled away another layer of mystery about materials floating in deep space. Tiny multilayered balls called “carbon onions,” produced in laboratory studies, appear to have the same light-absorption characteristics as dust particles in the regions between the stars.