I believe one of the best ways to "BEAM" data into areas with little or no net access would be to bounce RF encoded data packets off the moon. Any HAM radio operator knows that voice streams can be bounced off the surface of the moon and picked up in far away places. Moonbounce would be perfect for underground low bit-rate data streams, such as twitter or facebook posts.
If coordinated properly with someone in an outside country (possibly even via amateur radio) these µblogs could then be posted to the net.
Also there is the possibility for internal communications within local communities via packet radio technologies like AX.25 which can be used to access local bulletin boards to post updates, coordinate with others, etc.
Then there is also the possibility of 802.11s which can be used to create shared connections over longer distances, and also can provide some redundancy when nodes are taken down.
The options for providing connectivity are plethora, the problem is in coordinating an approach between enough people for it to make a difference.
You can upload video to video.google.com for free and you can use pretty high quality. There are even full length movies on google video that are supposedly public domain.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe one of the best ways to "BEAM" data into areas with little or no net access would be to bounce RF encoded data packets off the moon. Any HAM radio operator knows that voice streams can be bounced off the surface of the moon and picked up in far away places. Moonbounce would be perfect for underground low bit-rate data streams, such as twitter or facebook posts.
If coordinated properly with someone in an outside country (possibly even via amateur radio) these µblogs could then be posted to the net.
Also there is the possibility for internal communications within local communities via packet radio technologies like AX.25 which can be used to access local bulletin boards to post updates, coordinate with others, etc.
Then there is also the possibility of 802.11s which can be used to create shared connections over longer distances, and also can provide some redundancy when nodes are taken down.
The options for providing connectivity are plethora, the problem is in coordinating an approach between enough people for it to make a difference.
Cheers!
You can upload video to video.google.com for free and you can use pretty high quality. There are even full length movies on google video that are supposedly public domain.
cheers,
-DT
it just got really cold here, and i havn't been out in the day since thursday.