[Noisebridge-discuss] Giant space explosion detector

[Andrew Cantino]

I have Ruby code to use the Twitter API if it's useful.

On Friday, May 1, 2009, Dr. Jesus <j at hug.gs> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:14:42AM -0700, Michael C. Toren wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:38:53AM -0700, Dr. Jesus wrote:
>> > I would like to make this useful again, and you might be able to
>> > help.  Here are some of my ideas:
>>
>> I was chatting with Dr. Jesus in IRC about this, and he started
>> explaining a bit how NASA distributes the data.  I summarized that
>> conversation and put some notes up on the wiki at:
>>
>>     https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Gamma_Ray_Burst
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> I'm interested in helping set up a repeater service as a first step, as
>> it seem like anything else we do with the data would depend on it being
>> made available to a wider audience.  It also seems like this should be
>> an easy thing to do.  If anyone else is interested in working on this
>> piece of it, please let me know.
>
> Sweet!  I'm still super busy, but I'll still help as much as I can.
>
> Maybe a good first step would be running the IRC bot on #noisebridge
> on freenode?
>
> I think I saw a few other people doing twitter API stuff, so maybe
> feeding GRB events to twitter might also be a good first step?
>
> If you run it for a while you'll eventually have a giant space
> explosion in the logs, and that will make it clear which packets are
> actually used out of the huge list of packet types in the docs.  I
> should also point out that the URLs to the pictures seem to expire
> something like an hour after the GRB triggers the satellite's internal
> sensors.
>
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