DailyDirt: Satellites For Everyone!

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

Satellites are getting cheaper and cheaper to buy, operate and send up to space. But Oprah isn't giving them away for free to her audience (not yet anyway). Here are just some quick links to stories about satellites. By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
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Filed Under: electrospraying, inexpensive space projects, ion drive, satellites
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    slander (profile), 2 May 2011 @ 5:48pm

    Glory Probe?

    Somebody looking for revenge on some aliens?

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    Pixelation, 2 May 2011 @ 5:49pm

    Just wait

    They're postage stamp sized now but wait until they reassemble themselves into something bigger. Isn't this how the Borg got their start?

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    Pixelation, 2 May 2011 @ 5:52pm

    Tricky business? Not sure why they don't just take them to the south pole and let them fall into orbit.

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    McCrea, 2 May 2011 @ 6:11pm

    Shutup, Buttmunch

    Huh, huh huh huh, huh, huh. You said "Glory probe".

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    TechDan (profile), 2 May 2011 @ 8:44pm

    Glory Probe

    Perhaps not the best name for a satellite.

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    Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2 May 2011 @ 8:47pm

    Throw Yourself At The Ground And Miss

    I always thought Douglas Adams’ definition of “flying” was a better description of “orbiting” ...

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