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: The original articles about the project have also seen some comments from people who see this sort of thing as an intrusion into the last areas which are supposed to be a refuge from global connectability - much like cell phones have been decried by those accustomed to be able to elude attempts to be contacted when not around a fixed telephone. I think this may have similar overtones - a general idea that some areas are _supposed_ to be secluded like that. Only a guess though... --[[Special:Contributions/193.231.162.31|193.231.162.31]] 09:18, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 
: The original articles about the project have also seen some comments from people who see this sort of thing as an intrusion into the last areas which are supposed to be a refuge from global connectability - much like cell phones have been decried by those accustomed to be able to elude attempts to be contacted when not around a fixed telephone. I think this may have similar overtones - a general idea that some areas are _supposed_ to be secluded like that. Only a guess though... --[[Special:Contributions/193.231.162.31|193.231.162.31]] 09:18, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 
:: There's a comparison to be made between being in signal range for mobile phones but deliberately not carrying one (or turning the one you have off for the duration) and being now within reach of the Internet but again with deliberate non-connection to this.  (On one hand I accidentally (''genuinely'' accidentally) forgot my mobile yesterday, when I went out, and missed four calls.  Or one call re-attempted three times.  I'm also in a '4G' area for mobile internet, but I quite deliberately have a phone that doesn't have any browsing capability at all, so I'm swimming in 4G access but 'happily' unaffected even when I don't forget (or 'forget') my phone.)  Arguably there's far more benefits for having the ''potential'' of connectivity (so long as you make it universally possible and not Rich Boys' Toys-enabled only, which is already the case) than deliberately making areas of the planet 'dark' to such things just to reinforce some select people's 'spiritual abstinence' from such 'fripperies'.  Implementation is the key to this blanket equality (or "raising to the common good"), of course. [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 12:35, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 
:: There's a comparison to be made between being in signal range for mobile phones but deliberately not carrying one (or turning the one you have off for the duration) and being now within reach of the Internet but again with deliberate non-connection to this.  (On one hand I accidentally (''genuinely'' accidentally) forgot my mobile yesterday, when I went out, and missed four calls.  Or one call re-attempted three times.  I'm also in a '4G' area for mobile internet, but I quite deliberately have a phone that doesn't have any browsing capability at all, so I'm swimming in 4G access but 'happily' unaffected even when I don't forget (or 'forget') my phone.)  Arguably there's far more benefits for having the ''potential'' of connectivity (so long as you make it universally possible and not Rich Boys' Toys-enabled only, which is already the case) than deliberately making areas of the planet 'dark' to such things just to reinforce some select people's 'spiritual abstinence' from such 'fripperies'.  Implementation is the key to this blanket equality (or "raising to the common good"), of course. [[Special:Contributions/178.107.249.215|178.107.249.215]] 12:35, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
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:::I was going to say just this in a much less eloquent way.  Thank you. [[Special:Contributions/76.106.251.87|76.106.251.87]] 22:13, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 
  
 
There is a visual ambiguity as if the balloon is big and far (big enough to carry a person), or small and close.
 
There is a visual ambiguity as if the balloon is big and far (big enough to carry a person), or small and close.

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