[Noisebridge-discuss] Giant space explosion detector

[daniela Steinsapir]

 I know , I am interested too,   I  replied to them with have a couple of
space projects that I have going on too.
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
> wrote:

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