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Budget Satellite

Posted by michael on from the take-notes-iridium dept.

codejunkie writes: "Check out this story from the Baltimore Sun. Apparently the middies were laughed at when they proposed a budget satellite for 50K. Boeing said it couldn't be done and gave them 250K. Well now they can build five more because the smart minds on the bay have built one."

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  1. Woo hoo by WickedClean · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh great, the Yugo of sattelites. Parts are gonna break off and land on my house, now that I've said something.

    Don't you wish people would give you 5 times the amount you asked for when doing projects like this?

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    ...All I can say is that my life is pretty strange...
  2. Feet away... by Justen · · Score: 3, Funny

    "And they were innovative - they discovered that the tape in a tape measure would flip into place on its own while in orbit."

    We remember the last space venture battling metric versus auxiliary measurement systems.

    (I'm sorry NASA. You guys do wonderful things. I just couldn't resist.)

    jrbd

  3. They should call it by Modus+Nonsens · · Score: 3, Funny

    The MacGyver satellite

  4. middies? by HunterRose · · Score: 1, Funny

    for what its worth, we hate the term middies. mids or midshipmen is far more preferable.

  5. Re:lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    > Only problem is it'll cost about a million dollars to put that POS in orbit, so if it breaks the first day because of your shit design,

    Hello Patrick!

  6. Re:$50,000 is too much by heikkile · · Score: 3, Funny

    First offer at 5.000.000, any lower?
    Ah, the gentleman in uniform, 50.000 it is!
    Come on, folks, you can go lower than that! Do I hear 10.000? Anybody dare to bid 5.000? Ah, thank you! 5.000 it is, for the schoolboy in the back row.
    Well, folks, this is getting interesting. Who has the guts to do it for 500? Come on, Three times they hava managed to cut the price by a factor of 10, can you do the fourth time? What, no bids?
    I hate to say, but 5000 is the best bid so far. Going once! ... Going twice! Last chance, folks!

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    In Murphy We Turst

  7. And the key to cutting the cost would be .. by ananke · · Score: 2, Funny

    ducktape. Yes folks, the only thing that will survive the nuclear war besides coakroaches. Personally, I don't think there has been a project yet, that could have not been improved or fixed by ducktape. No need for those fancy bolts, plates, etc. The 50k$ satellite will use ducktape.

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    --- d'oh
  8. Duct tape = the Force by not-quite-rite · · Score: 2, Funny

    It has a light side, a dark side and holds the universe together.

    Fixes bloody well everything!