I know , I am interested too, I replied to them with have a couple of space projects that I have going on too.<br>D<br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Michael Shiloh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michaelshiloh1010@gmail.com">michaelshiloh1010@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">awesome! i'm interested!<br>
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art!<br>
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e.g. arduino follows the feed and animates some artistic representation .... something... when an explosion is detected.<br>
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more art!<br>
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e.g. music, video, same feed into processing or PD make something cool looking and sounding. even just a screensaver would be great.<br>
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giantspaceexplosions needs a twitter feed. i'd certainly follow.<br>
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perhaps dvrogers would be interested in linking to his earthquake table!?!? or other projects? this is in his area of work, i would think.<br>
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dorkbot presentation! doesn't get much dorkier than this.<br>
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are you in touch with the ham radio community? they would love this stuff. if you have an article/website/overview, i can post to one of the livelier local lists (9amtalknet) who are often interested in space events, not necessarily ham related.<br>
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Dr. Jesus wrote:<br>
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You might have seen this article lately:<br>
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<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428092558.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428092558.htm</a><br>
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A while ago (2004ish), NASA approved my application to get the<br>
downlink feed from their satellite network of gamma ray burst<br>
detectors. I set up a server to receive the feed and wrote some code<br>
to parse the output from the feed and create a basic early warning<br>
system for giant space explosions. Then I got busy and it sat there,<br>
detecting giant space explosions and dutifully telling an IRC channel<br>
with a bunch of lurkers who didn't care.<br>
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I would like to make this useful again, and you might be able to<br>
help. Here are some of my ideas:<br>
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1) Start a little business with someone with more ObjC-fu than me to<br>
develop an app to be sold on the iPhone Store which provides giant<br>
space explosion warnings. This blocks on iPhone OS 3.0 and its push<br>
stuff. I already have the $99 developer account and I registered<br>
<a href="http://giantspaceexplosions.com" target="_blank">giantspaceexplosions.com</a>. NASA has given the thumbs up to commercial<br>
use of the data subject to a few conditions (don't use their logo in<br>
certain ways), but I think it would be nice to donate some profits to<br>
them. Basically, any of you hit by the downturn who know iPhone<br>
programming (or can learn it) can turn your time into money by doing<br>
this. I'll even lend you macs and iPod touches and things if you can<br>
prove you're serious.<br>
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(I know it would be nice to have the app be free and that's a<br>
possibility, but because I have to run a server to make this work<br>
there has to be a non-free version as well.)<br>
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2) Install a giant space explosion detector on donkey.noise.<br>
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3) Mash up the GRB detector feed with Google Sky.<br>
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4) Provide a repeater service for the live x-ray and gamma ray feeds<br>
from the satellites. Right now, the data is only available to people<br>
who receive the downlink directly; I'm not aware of any University or<br>
other group which repeats the data to the public using the intarwebs.<br>
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5) Write an XScreensaver display hack that displays the last few GRB<br>
locations using some freely available starcharts.<br>
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6) Tie the GRB feed in with the space weather warning system, the<br>
CAISO blackout announcement system, the federal EAS, the ICCP system<br>
monitoring feed, and the smartmeters that PG&E is deploying to all<br>
Californians in the next few years to create the SMS-based Noisebridge<br>
OMGWTF Early Warning System For System Administrators (TM).<br>
<br>
... and anything else you suggest which is sufficiently awesome.<br>
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(I also would really like to be able to say "noisebridge, in<br>
cooperation with NASA," because seriously how awesome is that.)<br>
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