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#Facebook Says Wi-fi Drones Will be sized Jumbo jet If a new Facebook plan is successful the easiest way to access the cloud may be...#in the clouds. Facebook wants to spread Wi-fi Internet to unconnected parts of the world with drones and at#a summit in New york earlier this week the company revealed those drones will be the size of jumbo jets. In March of 2014 Facebook acquired drone maker Ascenta whose solar-powered drones could potentially#remain airborne at 65000 feet for months or years at a time. Ascenta's web page has disappeared since the acquisition leaving only a goodbye notice in Facebook-blue.##To make this project fly Facebook plans on testing one of the drones over American skies by 2015 hoping to#have the project off the ground in three to five years. While bringing Internet connectivity to unconnected parts of the world should be a good enough move for public relations Facebook also joined the ongoing war against calling unmanned aircraft drones: Whatever its#name the craft without people on board will let people access#the web from the heavens. Internet. org a collaboration between social media giant Facebook#and telecom behemoths Nokia and Qualcomm created a short#optimistic video about these sky Internet#robots. Watch it below o

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