Build Your Own Linux-Based Satellite 184
An anonymous reader writes "For $10 million, SpaceDev is offering a Linux-based microsatellite that can be controlled over the internet using any laptop or desktop computer. The Modular Microsat Bus utilizes such things as plug and play USB, Ethernet, and other standards, while providing critical features such as power, maneuvering, and communication for you. Up to 40 kg of project space are at your disposal"
I'll take two (Score:5, Funny)
FP (Score:3, Funny)
"Laser beam" (Score:5, Funny)
World conquest, here I come!
3 Words (Score:5, Funny)
Orbiting brain lasers.
Only 10 Million? (Score:4, Funny)
Micro-orbit satellite (Score:5, Funny)
P2P (Score:4, Funny)
eDonkey 2001: A Space Odyssey
You're all thinking it... (Score:4, Funny)
utilizes such things as plug and play USB (Score:5, Funny)
Great!! (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/techtree/ [civfanatics.com]
Re:"Laser beam" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Of what use is it? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Of what use is it? (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot! It doesn't matter what it is, or why it runs Linux, so long as it does. Kitchen appliances? Check. Stuffed animals? Check. Dead flies? We're all over it.
Global dominion (Score:2, Funny)
Oooh....I can't wait to do this... (Score:3, Funny)
crw------- 1 root satellite 3, 0 Nov 07 2005
bash-2.05a$ file
/dev/usb/satellite0: character special SpaceDev MMB-100 microsat
bash-2.05a$ mount
bash-2.05a$ mv
Sats and the DCMA (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A neat idea... (Score:5, Funny)
** Comes free with IE6 and WinFS Beta
metric system conversion (Score:3, Funny)
Now all I need is a USB-compatible shark brain to pilot it...
2. Threaten to blow up planet (10 times)
3. Profit !
Beer (Score:5, Funny)
There are too much joke potential with the idea of throwing out to space Windows computers also, but of course, nobody wants that a blue screen turns it into a red meteorite of death.
Re:Problem is downlink (Score:3, Funny)
CONFIG_BLUETOOTH=y
And launch a lot of them.
A whole new meaning to 'network collision' (Score:2, Funny)
Plug'n'play space elevator... (Score:3, Funny)
Does the USB cable double as a space elevator when not in use?
Re:3 Words (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Problem is downlink (Score:5, Funny)
dont everybody click this at once (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.starterupsteve.com/swf/switchlinux3.ht
especially funny, in the context of this topic
Re:3 Words (Score:3, Funny)
All you need are three lasers---one red, one green, one blue---and a moderately precise tracking system. Pick a sufficiently refractive layer transition in the atmosphere (or a cloud or whatever) and use it as what would amount to a giant projection screen. Now, you can advertise Coca-Cola in fifty-mile-tall letters that are clearly visible simultaneously from anywhere in the continental United States!
Re:Open Source public Sat?! (Score:2, Funny)
That is assuming that everyone does not try to log on in the first few seconds and we then spend 10 years looking at 500 errors while we save up for enough money to send someone up to reboot it.
Re:I'd like less than one. (Score:1, Funny)