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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. Railgun cheaper than rockets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I bet a railgun could get that satellite out there cheaper. But with how much censorship and moderating that slashdot has done to me this will be my last post to this stupid website. I am really sick of writing things. eg. 1 out of 3 geeks that never see the light.

    It must be that they are LIBERALS!

  2. 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.
  3. Re:1 out of 3 geeks can make it work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, 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.

    Jesus Tits, your punctuation isn't perfect either! "Tenure"

    Ya got the Devil in ya boy.

  4. Re:Building a cheap sat is kind of easy... by mcolin · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    >So maybe it shouldn't cost 500K$, but for the price you are certain it WILL work...

    Yeah, because we all know how NASA's excellent workmanship and unit conversion skill protects them from the terrible secret of space.