槽边美帝：谷歌热气球计划

[–]chicken_bacon_ranch 899 points 11 months ago
Finally, real cloud computing!
这才是他妈的云计算！

[–]elastic-craptastic 296 points 11 months ago
Also the answer to XBox One's 24 hour internet check-in for all the folks in the rural areas!
终于可以随心所欲在任何时候任何地方玩XBox One了！（XBox one需实时在线）

[–]PotatoSalad 312 points 11 months ago
Wait a minute. That might actually work. That's it! Microsoft and Google are in cahoots to bring the Internet once every 24 hours to the entire planet.
等等，好像真的是这样！对了，微软和谷歌一定在谋划着将互联网覆盖到这个星球上的任一角落！

[–]mikenasty 72 points 11 months ago
But only once... Then you can go back to your Amish ways
呵呵，只有一次...然后你就回去过你的阿米什人生活吧
译者注：阿米什人是基督新教的一个分支，以过着拒绝电力和现代化设备，过着简朴生活文明

[–]megustafap 3 points 11 months ago
And play your Xbox.
别忘了继续玩Xbox

[–]therandomturtle11 1 point 11 months ago
More like balloon computing.
应该称作气球运算

[–]wurtis16 1270 points 11 months ago
Network in the sky.
Sky Net.
SKYNET.
天空上的网络。
天网。（终结者里面的大反派，控制了所有的机器人）

[–]buttplugpeddler 518 points 11 months ago
Pretty sure we can defeat this one guys.
不用怕，吾有一计可破

[–]orangesodasmurf 535 points 11 months ago
We better stock up before they introduce Google Haystack!
在谷歌把这玩意录入Google Haystack我们最好还是储备一些。
译者注：Find a needle in haystack（干草堆）是一个西方谚语，比喻东西很难找，和中国的“海底捞针”一个意思。所以needle一般就是指你要寻找的目标， haystack就是可能包含目标的一堆东西

[–]OceaN88 105 points 11 months ago
The NSA (Needle Security Agency) will take note and send a Drone to take you out before you even get close to a balloon.
针尖安全局（此处恶搞NSA，美国国家安全局NationalSecurityAgency）会防御这些的，当你携带一枚针尖靠近气球的时候就会发出哔哔的警报，然后会出来一堆人把你带去喝茶。

[–]killycal 1 point 11 months ago
Yup. We're screwed.
好吧，我们彻底完了

[–]FoppaSmash 44 points 11 months ago
About 151,000,000 results
大概有151,000,000搜索结果

–]SUDDENLY_A_LARGE_ROD
in .0000021 seconds
在.0000021秒内

[–]hostolis 120 points 11 months ago
Next step, cameras on the balloons. Google earth live!
Don't worry about privacy though, they will promise to not look into houses.
下一步，热气球上将会有相机，然后就是谷歌地球在线！！别担心，谷歌会承诺不偷窥你房子内的东西..

This actually brings up a good point. If Google is going to blanket the globe (or parts of it) with balloons, there's no reason they wouldn't put high resolution cameras on them for the purpose of collecting image data. It wouldn't be "live" but it could certainly keep Google Earth more current and fill in some gaps.
恩，这是可想而知的事情。假如谷歌像描绘整个地球的话，他们没有理由不在热气球上安装高分辨率的摄像机，来收集各种图像数据。应该不是在线，但这确实会帮助谷歌更加实时以及填补一些空缺

[–]veckrot 786 points 11 months ago
I have my concerns about some areas of google (privacy, tracking, etc), but goddamn if they don't do some cool stuff.
我担心的是一些诸如隐私、跟踪这样一些问题，他们如果不能很好的解决这些问题的话我就艹了

[–]Ciriacus 301 points 11 months ago
Hmmm. Did I sleep all the way to April 1st?
额，我这是直接睡到愚人节了？？
[–]Calymos 18 points 11 months ago
Seriously. Google is far from normal, but damn, project loon? And it's real? That's pretty sweet; totally out of left field, though.
很严肃的说，谷歌确实与众不同，但是卧槽，热气球计划？而且是真的？？对于那些还没有网络的地方，这简直太棒了。
[–]Jumpinjer 33 points 11 months ago
Same for me. I saw the title and had to take a second to remember that it wasn't April 1.
我也是。我看到这个标题，然后马上去看日历今天是不是4.1号.

[–]MrStonedOne 167 points 11 months ago
With mesh networking and neural computing, they could easily make this self regulating.
Once they get to the point where there is overlap between coverage, they could make it so the balloons will detect usage spikes and have some of the nearby balloons congregate in that area to provide better bandwidth.
Man I love the future.
随着网状网络和神经计算的发展，这些气球可以自发的形成一些意识。当有气球侦测到下方的数据使用量特别大的时候，他可以调动一些旁边的气球过来增加带宽。
我对未来已经迫不及待了

[–][deleted] 84 points 11 months ago
...until someone with a clustered botnet throws a DDoS-started balloon party.
直到有人来了个集群僵尸网络DDos,开了一个热气球派对...

[–]PotatoTime 112 points 11 months ago
Google could just give the balloons guns to shoot down other unruly balloons.
谷歌可以在热气球上装配枪械，来击落一些不受控制的气球

[–]slowest_hour 106 points 11 months ago
Balloons with guns.
装配枪支的气球，呵呵

接着有位热气球计划的的工内测人员做了详细的Q&A，来解释热气球的一些安装/速率/接入方式等等一些问题，问题好多，我就不再复制原文，直接上中文版
1. 如何连接
只有当热气球飘过你上方的时候才可以连接。所有就目前来说，其实我也并没有太多的机会去测试，毕竟现在热气球还是太少了。

2. 热气球稳定吗？
由于目前气球数量的限制，只能说还凑合吧。

3. 网速够快嘛？（我猜会很慢，我只是怀疑）
抱歉，现在还没有速度测试

4. 安装接收器要多久？
安装速度很快，接收器只是个小球而已，很多人把它安装在房顶。像这样。

5. 是付费安装吗？
不，都是免费的。

**6. 屋顶上多一个这样的球，你感觉如何？ **
简直太酷了，不能再特别了。

7. 你是怎么得到这个内测名额的？
我只能说我是舅舅党(好吧，美国也走关系么..)

8. 你觉得这个项目应该取消吗？
不，我觉得这是个好项目，特别是对那些网络没有接通的偏远地区，这会给他们带去一个不一样的世界。

9. 你能上优土鳖吗？能上1024嘛？
由于现在气球数量实在太少了，而且只有飘过头顶的时候才行，很多时候我才撸一半就不得不关掉页面了，这着实令人沮丧。

附上地址
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1gdsy3/google_introduces_project_loon_balloonpowered/