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USNA "Budget" Satellite Launched and Functioning
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.""
I hope so!!!
Budget satellite: Cut on spendings, yeah the dictionary too.
w00t.
TOP TEN SIGNS YOUR NETWORK APPLIANCE IS BASED ON LINUX
10) Console sometimes says "Filesystems have gone too long without fsck".
9) Randomly connects to slashdot and posts insipid comments under
anonymous-coward@yourdomain.com.
8) Supposed to be a web cache, but somehow turned into warez cache.
7) Whitepaper is 10,000 pages long, 1 page of info and 9,999 pages of
source code.
6) Manual only comes in two languages, Finnish and elisp.
5) Case made out of space age synthetic alloy of duct tape and dental
floss.
4) Not really sure what it does, but weenie administrator said purchasing
it would be good for "the community".
3) You get a mail from some dork named CmdrTaco wanting you to do an
interview about it.
2) You attach a line printer and it starts alternating between printing
banners of "FREE KEVIN" and something called DeCSS.
1) All your other network appliances complain about it getting drunk
and blasting the free software song at 3am.
I have a great IDEA we should get like 100 people that read /. and start a internet business!! WE will make our own satilite and relay our customers info off the satelite back to our facility where we have a T3 or something!!!
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Man if this isn't offtopic I don't know what is. I mean, eggs and chickens. If you give this guys any mod points, he'll be posting bestiality pics and donkey durby stuff.
Why? So you can see if the lack of gravity makes your penis shorter?
Imagine the surprise it can cause to the guys in the baloon if it suddenly comes down.
There's a lot of space junk already floating aroung, no need to send it on purpose... imho.
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It sounds like you have a good point, but you should not back it up by lying about working in an uplink station.
Anyone who worked in an uplink station would know how to spell satellite.
Aaaaw, poor little Mr. Moderator is crying because someone pointed out a flaw with NASA.
How dare he insult our glorius Institute of Overspending? Let's label it Flamebait, as NASA never makes any errors and all the Mars Probes
successfully reached their targets and no one should see a slightly witty debunking of the "if you spend 500k+, it WILL work"-hypothesis.
God bless NASA.