[Noisebridge-discuss] personal satellite

[Dr. Jesus]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Praveen Sinha<dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just thought this is cool as beans:
>
> http://spacefellowship.com/2009/08/01/interorbital-syatems-tubesat-personal-satellite-kit/
>
> (though it only has a lifespan of a couple of weeks :-( )
>
> Anyone have any good ideas of what you could it?

Add a sail to the package and boost it into geostationary orbit with a
big-ass laser to add it to the noisebridge space program.  mct is
running the existing space program, which receives (I am not making
this up) giant space explosion data from NASA in order to put it into
an RSS feed for twittering.

  http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/burst_info.html

Alternatively, put burritos in the can instead of electronics, then
steer them into an orbit near the ISS.  Then, have NASA provide the
astronauts there with a take-out menu consisting of a single $20k
burrito.  I have no idea how such a burrito would be qualified as
space-worthy by whoever approves space foods for NASA, but I'm sure
someone here knows.

When I went to space camp I was told that a good chunk of the food
that's sent up is irradiated to eliminate pathogens.  Forms for the
space burrito delivery thing probably don't exist, but I'd be really
surprised if anyone's even thought of forms for a radioactive space
burrito delivery service.