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2. California Balloon Law - Wikipedia

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   Do not use metallic ribbon with helium-filled balloons; Although the law was put into effect in 1990, the issue of foil balloons being a hazard resurfaced in 2008. A senate bill was proposed to ban the sale of all foil balloons by the year 2010 due to the increased number of power outages. [citation needed] The bill was California Senate Bill 1499.

3. Loon LLC - Wikipedia

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   A Loon balloon at the Christchurch launch event in June 2013. Loon LLC was an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary working on providing Internet access to rural and remote areas. The company used high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere at an altitude of 18 km (11 mi) to 25 km (16 mi) to create an aerial wireless network with up to 1 Mbit/s speeds.

4. Mylar balloons cause bouquet of problems for power ... - AOL

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   The number of power outages caused by Mylar balloons in PNM's service territory grew by more than 55% last year from the year prior, the company noted in a news release.

5. Tethered Aerostat Radar System - Wikipedia

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   The Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) [1] is an American low-level airborne ground surveillance system that uses aerostats (moored balloons) as radar platforms. Similar systems include the EL/M-2083 and JLENS .

6. PNM shares tips for safety around Mylar balloons this ... - AOL

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7. Balloon hits a New Orleans power line and triggers boil water ...

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   A boil water advisory is in place for the East Bank of New Orleans and Algiers Point after a foil balloon hit a power line and briefly caused an outage at a water treatment plant.

8. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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   Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...

9. 8-year-old girl suffocated to death by Mylar balloon sparks ...

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   KOIN reports that an 8-year-old girl from Portland, Oregon tragically died after being suffocated by a mylar balloon -- a decoration from her own birthday party. ... It was the number three. And ...