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Mini Satellites Could Revolutionize Space Industry
An anonymous reader writes "Space Daily reports that University of Toronto researchers are working on a project that could replace conventional satellites with a miniature version no larger than a milk carton. From the article: "At only 3.5 kilograms, the Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment 2 (CanX-2) will test small, low-power devices that could lay the groundwork for flying formations of small satellites that could eventually replace larger, more expensive satellites."
Is John Carmack building this gigantic hydrogen-powered trebuchet and launching milk cartons full of electronics into space
... I think this is a sign I should be sleeping at 3:35 AM and not reading slashdot
To bad other electronics didn't follow suit. I predict that within 100 years computers and hand held electronics will be twice as powerful, 10000 times larger and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own one.
If only we had an elevator to lift all those milk cartons.
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His name is Robert Paulsen...
Space Daily reports that University of Toronto researchers are working on a project that could replace conventional satellites with a miniature version no larger than a milk carton.
Or a thigh bone?
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Hey, where is the milk!
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Read before you mod up. Parent has inserted multiple typos and errors into the text. This is not 'interesting'.
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It is creating significant danger to any rocket with men
Then send women.
Would it have killed you to say "people"?
If Mini satellites could revolutionize the space industry, think what big ones could do!
Milk cartons are Satellites
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Q. What do you call large numbers of objects no larger than a milk carton moving at orbital velocity?
A. Shrapnel
There's no failure quite as dissatisfying as a complete and total solution to the wrong problem.
Why, I remember when Canadian satellites used to be suitcase-sized! Soon they'll be cell phone sized. (Luckily, in space no one can hear your ring-tone.)
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Isn't going to be awfully hard to see the pictures of lost kids from that far away?
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