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Laser for Satellite to Satellite Communications

heby writes: "Last night ESA successfully tested the first laser link between two satellites (SPOT 4 and Artemis). SPOT 4 is supposed to serve as a data communications relay between Artemis and the receiving station in Toulouse. The link is running at 50Mbps and the two satellites are currently orbiting at 832km and 31000km respectively.
According to ESA "The main challenge in establishing an optical link between satellites is to point a very narrow beam with extreme accuracy to illuminate the partner spacecraft flying at a speed of 7000 m/s." Way to go, ESA!"

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  1. Now If I could only by minus23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now If I could only pee in the toilet and not on the seat I would be in busisness!

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp by ankit!

  3. yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm gay

  4. my a$$... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...laserlink my ass... first p0st by the way

  5. Re:First Troll! DEATH to ISLAM by ZaxxonFlux · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Islam, the ass-infidel religion of pederasts and unholy and unclean anal licking practices.

    Henry Jessup on ISLAM.
    The leading 19th Century Middle Eastern scholar in America, Henry Jessup, decided that Islam essentially constituted "a heap of rubbish." Jessup had read the first American edition of the Koran, which was published in 1806. The editor of that edition warned readers, in the preface, that the text of the Koran offered little more than a collection of "contradictions, blasphemies, obscene speeches and ridiculous fables."

    Mark Twain on ISLAM.
    One of America's most popular humorists, Mark Twain, perpetuated this scholarly tradition. Although Twain earned a reputation as "the Lincoln of our literature" for his brilliant denunciation of slavery in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," the author had a potential for nastiness. Eighteen years before he published Huck Finn, Twain engaged in a grand tour of the Holy Land. Twain recorded his impressions of Arab Muslims for American newspapers: "They never invent anything, never learn anything. . . . They are a stupid population . . . all beggars by nature, instinct and education."

    Robert Ruark on ISLAM.
    Robert Ruark, a popular syndicated columnist in the 1950s and 1960s, sent these reflections back home: "Mohammedans do not think like a lot of other people in this world. They never have. They are almost devoid of what we call kindness and pity. . . . This applies to animals, enemies and their own kind. They derive amusement from torture, from mutilation, of both animal and man."

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    # ISLAM #

    Forgive this. But I will not forget.

    Our dead cry out in tortured horror:
    Kill all Muslims.
    Kill all Mohammedans.
    Kill all Arabs.
    Kill all Towel Heads.
    Kill all Camel Jockeys.
    Kill all Sand Niggers.
    Kill all Dune Coons.
    Kill all Islam.
    Nuke their countries to hell.
    Nuke them again.
    Death to Islam.

    I piss on Mecca. I spit on the Koran. I shit on Mohammed.

    I call on the Destruction of Mecca and Medina, the most unholy shit dumps on earth.

    You don't have to be a Kreskin to predict Osama bin Laden's future

    And to all you Abdul Mohammed Al-Jaraazi Abdullah Mustafuh Atta Quadaphi Fuck-Head Al-Towel-Rag:
    Your "God" is our "Satan," have fun burning you scum. You disgusting animals, you will be a fresh farm of much needed organs for people who need livers and hearts, but I personally would rather die than receive a heart or liver from your satanic self.

    Hey, Ayatollah towel heads, you will be sent to heaven to meet your maker. (That would be Satan)

    I have no ability to stop my hatred towards you Ayatollahs, you better not peep out like a mushroom in a festering swamp lest I shoot your vile head off and harvest your organs for people who need them and cremate your vile self for crop fertilizer.

    # ISLAM #

    Tales from the Koran: How Mohammed met his end.

    We shove Jimmy DeanR Homestyle Pork Sausage up Mohammed's ass. Then while the Giver strokes me off I shoot my wad in Mohammed's face, after which we force Mohammed to fellate an 800 pound Chester White. Simultaneously, two Hasidic rabbis open their kosher bowels, unleashing torrents of gefilte shit on Mohammed's head and back, while The Giver pumps Mohammed from behind. After the hog shoots its wad in Mohammed's mouth, The Giver shoots his load up Mohammed's rectum. Then, unexpectedly, the Chester White roots out Mohammed's penis and testicles, hungrily biting them off, gobbling them down with full porcine fury. We bury the newly castrated Mohammed up to his nose in pig manure. Two AIDS infected Bowery whores stuff their used condoms and clotted tampax down Mohammed's throat, and crack a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 over his skull.

    We then leave him for the hogs to munch on. Mohammed is swine feed, and by tomorrow, he will be swine manure.

    # GOAT KORAN #

    For it is written in Mine book that goats are PLEASING and HOLY, in Mine eyes.

    I have told the Prophet Mohummad, peace on him!, that he should try a goat, but he is an 'ass-infidel', and persues young moslems.

    For this is pleasing in Mine eyes as well! I hearby issue a Fatwah: May the asses of the infidels be reamed by the Prophet, peace on him!, until they look like the goatse.cx man, who is of the devil.

    If you are Muslim, you are dead meat. We are going to hunt you down, and exterminate you. No cave is too deep, no desert too far. Your time is up.
    Check list for Muslims:

    Bend over.
    Put your head between your legs.
    Kiss your sorry asshole and Mohammed goodbye.
    We will wrap you in pig skin and stuff your sorry shit faced Muslim corpses with pork lard.

    # 99 Morally Bankrupt Fuckwads on the wall #

    99 Towel Heads Up On The Wall ...
    99 Sheep fucking twits,
    You shoot one down,
    You kick it around,
    98 Rag Heads left on the Wall.

    98 Cumlicking Chickenshits on the Wall,
    98 Camel sucking penis stuffers,
    You shoot one down,
    You kick it around,
    97 slimy turds left on the wall.

    97 Raghead Swine on the wall,
    97 Shit Encrusted pukes,
    You shoot one down,
    You kick it around,
    96 flea harbors left on the wall.

    96 Moronic idol polishers on the wall,
    96 pink skirted sphincter tasters,
    You shoot one down,
    You kick it around,
    95 pillow biters left on the wall.

    95 pustuled penis suckers on the wall,
    95 useless festering maggots,
    You shoot one down,
    You kick it around,
    94 brainwashed puddle scum left on the wall.