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Does anyone know how retrieval is ideally planned opposed to the current search party option?

There must be a reasonable cost for each balloons electronics, as well as the risk of this equipment hitting someone with balloon/time increases if left to random descent.

The other option they are working on besides balloons seems more manageable in that regard:

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-buys-solar-powered-drone-com...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-will-beam-gigabit-in...

They've already had one crash into a power line.

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