Friday Open Thread
Welcome to the Friday edition of your semi-daily open thread. Thanks to everyone who came out to Drinking Liberally last night. We had a great time and it’s always nice to meet new people. I’m spending the day at the beach today so be jealous!
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Very, very cool. Put a DIY Satellite in orbit for $8K.
I wish I could think of a project that would give me an excuse for launching a satellite. Oh, and I wish someone gave me 8K to pay for it.
You mean you can’t think of anything better than the guy who wants to harvest the music of the ionosphere?
I wonder if I could do something like that and put the recording out as a C’mon Delaware podcast. Might be less painful to listen to… 🙂
Can’t you say it’s for the kids? I’ve built a fair number of Tesla coils for other people’s kids — not always an effort that made their parents happy, but the kids were totally into it….
EDIT — these Tesla coils didn’t cost anywhere near $8K tho.
We could build a satellite that launches it’s payload of teabags just as it passes over Washington, DC.
Or we could use it to take a picture of Putin’s head as it rises over Alaska.
Or we could build a drone that identifies and shoots down the FoxNews satellite.
Can I launch my wife’s cat?
With the vet bills we are getting, the $8K will pay for itself.
The $8 k can be billed to the O’Donnell campaign as long as we allow her to claim it as her residence.
“US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs”
One can imagine that Afghani civilian deaths have also soared.
Afghanistan 2010 = Vietnam 1968
And it’s 1-2-3, what are we fighting for?
“Where have all the flowers gone?”
Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn.
Next stop’s gonna be Iran.