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08-23-2012, 07:56 PM
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 goinggoingGONE Poster Rank:33 I am a man yes I am and tell ya so Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 46,450 Mentioned: 65 Post(s) Quoted: 6610 Post(s)
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Brooklyn space project
During a moment of boredom this week at work I contemplated what it would take to send something to outer space. When researching I came across this family that beat me to the punch. Sending a IPhone 100k ft above the surface and capturing some beautiful footage before tumbling back to earth. Surprisingly the camera and phone was in tact and only several miles from their original launch site. They managed to recover the craft. Wicked ingenuity and something like this I'm going to try in the near future.
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08-23-2012, 09:02 PM
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Re: Brooklyn space project
There's a contest I found too. If you can land a robotic device on the moons surface that transmits HD images back to earth you can win a portion of up to 30 million in cash and prizes! Wanna enter?  |
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08-24-2012, 12:00 AM
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Re: Brooklyn space project
Aww shit I just read that your robotic device has to then travel 500m. This contest being won on a budget of 1000 bucks becoming out of reach.
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08-24-2012, 09:33 PM
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Re: Brooklyn space project
Fucking eh....motivates a guy to want to send shit into space that is for sure.
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08-24-2012, 09:37 PM
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Re: Brooklyn space project
i remember not long ago.. a bunch of guys were planning on sending their own satellites into space, as a means of "free" internet.. of sorts. forgot the whole story. ok.. found the whole story Well, you can protest Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) online, or work on ways around the planned censorship of the Internet. That’s what one hacker group is doing anyway. According to the BBC, Hackerspace Global Grid wants to launch its own satellite into space. The plan was unveiled at the Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin. Speaking for the group Nick Farr called for help in sending low cost satellites into space. “The first goal is an uncensorable internet in space. Let’s take the internet out of the control of terrestrial entities,”the BBC reported Farr saying. In order for the plan to work, the group will have to figure out how to track the satellites once it launches in space. By mid-2012, the group wants to have three prototype ground stations ready, MSNBC reports. The combination of the threat of censorship and the dropping costs of sending satellites into space make these hacker dreams pretty well grounded. http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/scie...to-space/11911 |
