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The Mission for Education and Multimedia Engagement Satellite (MEMESat-1) is planned to be the first meme broadcasting cube satellite ever created. MEMESAT-1 is being developed by letsgo2space.com, a non-profit trying to increase the exposure kids have to STEM topics.
At the moment, the team hopes to launch the satellite by late 2021, and no later than Spring 2022. The satellite will be a cubesat with flash memory containing thousands of meme images that will be broadcast to Earth via a transmitter operating in the UHF 70cm radio band. Enthusiasts on the ground will be able to receive the meme images with a Yagi antenna and we anticipate that RTL-SDRs will be a commonly used receiver. The satellite will also contain an FM UHF/VHF repeater operating in the amateur radio band for ham radio use.
Currently letsgo2space is fundraising and looking for $30,000 to fund the launch of MEMESAT-1. You can either donate any amount or submit a meme for their broadcast database for $1.69 via their website.
For non-radioheads, the 70cm band refers to the 433MHz frequency band normally used for industrial, scientific and medical devices. You should be able to pick up the signal with any UHF digital terrestrial television antenna and decode it with a Software Defined Radio receiver (Realtek RTL2832U clones being the most common due to its low cost) and gnuradio on a PC.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday February 19 2020, @07:52PM (8 children)
One elegant number station, basically.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Informative) by barbara hudson on Wednesday February 19 2020, @08:07PM (7 children)
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2020, @08:39PM (6 children)
Just more proof that stupid memes are stupid.
You should talk nicer about your nephew [soylentnews.org]! He can't help himself
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 19 2020, @09:11PM (5 children)
Wait, they aren't the same person? Or am I totally missing the joke? I am aren't I.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday February 19 2020, @09:52PM (3 children)
My craziness is limited to things like offering to adopt the two infants one of my coworkers showed up with Monday. Baby grey kangaroos are damn cute.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2020, @10:20PM
Oh fuck. Now I'm confused. I sorta understand you, but I can't relate to you.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:29AM
I disagree. A whole lot of crazy is an adequate replacement. Nor is said level of personality really that hard to come by.
The real problem is economics. It's too easy to set up your own website and dump crazy on the internet. There's too much supply. He'll need something to differentiate himself from the rest.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday February 20 2020, @04:42PM
Pardon my skepticism and confusion as you and he seemed to show up at the same time. I just figured he was posting on two different accounts, because well. You have seen his posts, yes? Though, looking at your id#s, you are quite far apart. So, maybe I'm just crazy.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2020, @10:10PM
I don't want to say anything before you go to the link in the above comment.