On paper, the notion of balloon-provided internet sounds more than a little ridiculous, but thats just how Google X rolls. Mountain Views far-off research division has recently spilled (some of) its guts to Fast Company, detailing the process for bringing something like Project Loon from concept to reality. To start, every X project must address a problem that affects possibly billions of people and it has to use a radical solution that resembles sci-fi to do so.