Previous studies have shown mercury's effects on loons and other fish-eating waterfowl, as well as bald eagles, panthers and otters.
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By the Way, I can sit in my two-hundred-year-old farmhouse listening to loons on the lake while I am on my wireless network through a broadband connection to the outside world.
Nobody can see into the future, but we can learn from the past, yeah, so pull on your loon pants, let's all cram into the Cortina, obscure the windscreen and then drive at speed towards our destiny using only the rearview mirrors.
Plus it's the 1970s, so the costume department get to go hog-wild on bellbottoms, loon pants, the loudest, vilest shirts imaginable, and some very unfortunate period-specific hair-don'ts (Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano, played here by Hank Azaria, famously sported some of the grossest haircuts of the entire era – and he was a hairdresser).
Given that Google was able to alert the FAA of the problem so planes could stay out of the balloon's path, chances are that the balloon was brought down in a relatively controlled manner (though it's unclear if Google used the safety parachute that's on every Loon balloon).
Google's efforts in mobile networks are, quite literally, coming out of thin air: the company has also been working on Project Loon and Titan (which came out of Google's acquisition of Titan Aerospace), two projects that are respectively putting balloons and solar-powered planes into the sky to provide internet connectivity in remote areas and emerging markets.
I stoked the wood stove -- it went into the 30's that night -- and we went to sleep listening to loons on the lake and wind in the eaves.
Such errant behavior can make it easy for loon predators like large fish or eagles to dine on these little balls of down, leaving fewer loons for future nocturnal vocalizing.
The right-wing Murdoch-owned New York Post called LaPierre a "loon" on its front page after one of his rants; the centrist Daily News went with "The Craziest Man On Earth"; and last week LaPierre argued against background checks for gun owners on the nonsensical grounds that criminals wouldn't submit to them.
After the town's paper mill failed in the 1960s, a group of local investors led by Sherman Adams, one-time aide to President Eisenhower, developed a ski resort on Loon Mountain and turned Lincoln into a year-round recreation center.
