[Noisebridge-discuss] personal satellite

[Christie Dudley]

Uh, not exactly.  Irradiate means "bombarded by radioactivity".
Microwaves are merely electrical energy in a nice length wave form.

Christie
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Pigs can fly given sufficient thrust.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:06 PM, deleted<arbzed at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is irradiated the same as microwaved?
> Cause if so, I've got facilities to manufacture space burritos in my own
> home.
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Dr. Jesus <j at hug.gs> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
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