Would it be cheaper to shoot it off into space from atop a mountain than at
sea level?
The rail gun? You may as well forget designing one if there isn't a
"vaporizing option". Seems those surveyed balk at the prospect of a messy
cleanup.
Mario Lombardo
<mario@alienscienc To: slug@nks.net
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Sent by: Subject: Re: [SLUG] A New Project!!!!
slug@lists.nks.net
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Please respond to
slug
Ronan, seriously I think it costs more than $30k/lb. for lofting?
They have to position it as well, true? When you said Zaurus, I
thought of a hardened case and RF equipment. It would weigh hmmm
five pounds or so?
Now how many people would contribute money to have that thing lofted
to have a FREE network? I, for one, would chip in $100 and I'M
BROKE! Sooo worst case $200000/100 = 2,000 people
Better yet, why don't we unwind some old transformers and build us a
rail gun? No fuel!
How about, Intergalactic Linux <--yes, I'm the first to coin this
distro, so hands off, buddy!
Oh how the creative juices secrete from thy cranium.
/mario
>Mark wrote:
>>Hey, can a bunch of you guys come over and design a satellite
>>communications transceiver that uses linux? I'll pay for the pizza.
>>
>>Anyway, it seems like it worked for others so I guess I would try as
well.
>>
>
>
>Sure. By satellite transceiver, do you mean a ground-station or a
>device to be lofted? At $30,000 per pound (lofting fee), I think I
>would try to use a PIC chip rather than one of those HUGE hardware
>platforms capable of running Linux. Even without the LCD, it would
>cost a fortune to loft a Zaurus!
>
>--ronan
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