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YouTube delivered more than 8 million concurrent livestreams of Felix Baumgartner’s record setting sky dive.
The Red Bull Stratos Mission not only sets the record for the highest jump from a platform (128,100 feet) and maximum vertical velocity (Mach 1.24 = 833.9 mph), it also appears to be YouTube’s most watched livestream to date.
This compares with approximately 500,00 concurrent livestreams (peak) during the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
