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Parasat

 Possibly useful in ten years
 
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More or less the opposite of xenzag's "Hey - that's me", the parasat is an umbrella for privacy conscious nude sunbathers. Sooner or later, Satellite/aerial imagery on the web will reach sufficient resolution to make individual people recognizable. The parasat would allow UV rays to penetrate while blocking visible light. As a bonus, it could be printed with the emoticon or rude gesture of one's choice.
—saxman, Jan 02 2008

december 2007 corrects this to AA battery at 1500 km http://www.sciam.co...arks-electric-sense
[beanangel, Jan 02 2008]

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       Are you embarrassed by your nakedness, [saxman]?
—UnaBubba, Jan 02 2008
   

       Only if Sergei Brin is watching.
—saxman, Jan 02 2008
   

       I'll send you an email that promises you need never be embarassed about the size of your Brin again.
—UnaBubba, Jan 02 2008
   

       I just read your annotation, [Treon], and I shorted out half of my neurons trying to understand it. WTF?   

       BTW, your link is subscriber-only.
—UnaBubba, Jan 02 2008
   

       I thought this was going to be a parasitic satellite. Maybe a tiny, cheap satellite that tracked a larger one, then docked with it magnetically. It could sit on top of the main satellite's radiator, using the waste heat-flux to power itself thermoelectrically. By aligning it's own antenna with that of the main satellite, it would never have to perform any corrective maneuvers itself - it would therefore need no onboard propellant apart from that needed to get it into position initially.
—MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 02 2008
   

       Isn't that how the UK, Oz, NZ and Canada utilise US satellites already, [MB]?
—UnaBubba, Jan 02 2008
   

       Sombrero ?
—8th of 7, Jan 02 2008
   

       Read "Fiasco" by Stanislaw Lem.
—saxman, Jan 03 2008
   

       //if like sharks they see farther than current technology// Hold on - where did that gem come from? Do you mean to say that, rather than putting Hubble up there, we could just have opted for a large aquarium and a hammerhead?
—MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 03 2008
   

       other: general - there's a Q missing somewhere
—po, Jan 03 2008
   


 

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