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German Hackers Propose Uncensorable Global Grid — With Satellites

Posted by timothy on from the das-klingt-aber-gut dept.

braindrainbahrain writes "The members of the Stuttgart Hackerspace have taken it upon themselves to launch their own space program. The immediate goal of the Hacker Space Program is to create an uncensorable internet in space beyond the control of terrestrial entities using a network of ground stations and communications satellites. In the longer term (think the year 2035), they'd like to put a hacker astronaut on the moon!"

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  1. Amateur Radio Satellites by Ozoner · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are you aware of the more than 70 Amateur-Radio Satellites which have been launched since 1961?

    see http://www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/Hamsats/HamsatsBasics.html

  2. Re:Free speech! by SuricouRaven · · Score: 4, Informative

    *Almost* a holy symbol. For some strange reason, the Nazi version was drawn back-to-front. Pre-nazi, the other way around dominated, though the flipped form was not unknown.