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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. 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

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

    The MacGyver satellite

  3. 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