Because of course Google would dream something as impossible and radical as cloaking the world in balloons 60,000 feet above sea level so that the entire world can get on the Internet.

Google's parent company is winding down a project that used highflying balloons to provide internet access in hard-to-reach regions of the world, as it retreats from some of the moonshot projects ...

To showcase its Project Loon Internet initiative, Google released a series of photos detailing the progress it is making on its balloon auto-launcher.

The Internet is abuzz with news of the first public flight tests in New Zealand of Google’s Project Loon, which aims to provide Internet access to underserved areas using a network of high ...

Scroll down to see how Google makes its Project Loon balloons. The goal of Project Loon is to use a network of solar-powered balloons to beam broadband to areas without internet access.

A Loon balloon ascends to the stratosphere and heads toward Google's partner school, Linoca Gayoso Castelo Branco, where students wait for the arrival of the Internet. Photo: Courtesy of Google A ...

A memorandum of understanding has been signed between Google and Sri Lanka's government, but does not give a timetable for when the balloons will be covering the 25,000 square mile nation.

SpaceX is building internet access from satellites in space. Loon is offering internet from balloons floating in the stratosphere.