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Using an Old Space-Suit as a Satellite
Andrew-Unit writes "The ARRL has an interesting article about an amateur satellite project where some amateur radio electronics will be crammed into an old spacesuit and chucked out of the window of the International Space Station."
... and so the 1st Inglewood satellite is launched...
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now they can broadcast the War of the Worlds to the whole globe simultaneously and scare the sh*t out of everyone like they did in the 1930s!
it really would be a transmission from outer space!
Is that an antenna in your pocket...?
In space, one doesn't 'chuck' - one 'deploys' ie:
Space: "Then we will deploy the space suit..."
Earth: "Vern chucked his fast food container out the window of his car"
Other permutations do not work ie:
Officer: "What do you think you are doing?"
Vern: "Hey officer, just deploying my garbage..."
AT&ROFLMAO
Aliens will be deterred thinking that they are cops orbitting around earth!!!
hilarious
Assuming it will be facing in the correct direction it should give the first point of view of a person stranded in space re-entering earth's atmosphere.
"Here's you in space... here's you coming home..."
In a word? Yes.
How else are we going to have a cool cinematic view of the earth for post apocolyptic movies where the human race was almost entirely wiped out by an alien race... come on now!
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This will be cool for amateur astronomers to try to find the dead guy floating in space using a telescope.
..after traveling for thousands of years, an alien crafts effort of final contact is foiled after crashing into, what appears to be- a satellite wearing spacesuite, just beyond the earths atmosphere..
In case it gets hot, perhaps?
.. future-Gryllidae-overlords-of-the-earth archeologist clique, collecting space debris for detailed analysis, find an old 'human skin vessel' floating out there, ever-watching, ever alert ..
its enough to make you want to chitillate ones carapace, ew.
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Didn't the oxygen supply fail on the ISS? They might want to keep those "surplus" suits around.
I hope my wife doesn't read this story. Otherwise the next time she goes to throw out all my "lucky" (read:Confortable) shirts she will just tell me "I am redploying them"
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All this satellite needs is a cantenna in one hand, and a WirelessB Pistol in the other, and web-controlled to point at the most-disliked federal area...a tie between Compton (California), Bronx (New York), or in the general direction of New Jersey (a stereotype I have yet to comprehend).
I am the nightmare of nightmares.
Oh...polluting the atmosphere. That's MUCH better. What kinds of toxic substances make up a space suit and radio gear?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"I think I can get him before he gets there... he's almost in range."
"That's no satellite! It's a space suit!"
"It's too small to be a space suit."
"I have a very bad feeling about this."
Exactly, besides it looks better than duct tape.
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Why would the ISS have windows that open??
To keep it warm at night.
Excuse my speling.
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Yeah, so instead of coming up with an innovative way of delivering mass to orbit we achieve that through accounting. It's declared as surplus, written off, and then it appears it got there *for free* - Ta-Da!
Be a great joke to play on the new guys. The first ghost story in space. And they say old Bob still orbits around these parts, forever relaying ham radio signals.
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Well, at least the spacesuit won't be crammed with a dead Frank Poole.
It can protect the radio gear better than a mere spacesuit. Besides, if you can land it, it can still run!
Bumper sticker -> Bugs in Space!
I like the part about the schools being allowed to supply one 8-1/2 by 11 inch picture, make absolutely sure it is in jpeg format because they burn up better, to be included on a CD, in order to be burned up with the suit.
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Teacher: Mary, your artwork is so good, were going to burn it. And it's not going to be a normal "throw it in the incinerator" type of burn; we are going to burn it in the most incredible heat possible, and spread the ashes all over the planet so there is no possibility of recovery.
Mary:
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Ok, so given that it costs something like millions of dollars to launch even a small few pound payload, why the hell are they worried about the cost of making a real satellite? My understanding is that you can make something space hardened fairly easily (which is the only point of the suit, AFAIK) and that the vast majority of the cost of a simple satellite comes from the launch.
Plus, having a human shaped thing floating around in orbit gives me the creeps. Can you imagine what that looks like to other life forms? "Xzarg, look what these people do to their criminals! Fuck this, keep driving."