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USNA "Budget" Satellite Launched and Functioning

Posted by timothy on from the hey-bob-where's-my-metal-tape-measure dept.

Arpad Korossy writes: "Hey, you ran a story on this earlier, and some people expressed doubt whether a sattelite made for a tenth of the usual cost using mostly components from Radio Shack would work; well, it has. The best line in the whole article has to be 'Instead of a $50,000 antenna system, the group used a metal tape measure.""

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  1. Re:1 out of 3 geeks can make it work by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You know, maybe you should have paid a _little_ attention when you were in college, so you could have learned not to sound like an idiot. "Tenyear" professors. Jesus Christ.

    -- your fellow Air Force vet

    --
    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.