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Origami from orbit
mchan
post Mar 28 2008, 01:58 AM
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It's UM and it's SF on the light side --

Origami from orbit

It would be way cool if they can pull it off.
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post Mar 28 2008, 04:35 PM
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It's an interesting experiment in material heat endurance, to say nothing of upper atmosphere dynamics...but, of course, there's an inherent 70% chance they'll land in the sea!

To do this right, they need to launch like 10,000 or more of these all at once. It would be fascinating to see the global distribution of landing sites for those few that might be recovered.

And actually the recovery problem is not insignificant even if many of them hit land & are found. How many languages should the "return to sender" message be written in? (I know that the researchers would want them back.) How many would actually be sent back regardless? Kids might just want to play with them, and who could blame them? Hell, I'd be tempted to keep one out of its sheer coolness. Others would put them right on eBay, I'm afraid.


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post Mar 28 2008, 08:42 PM
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How many languages should the "return to sender" message be written in?

Just one: http://www.paperplanefromspace.com....

Then you put as many languages as you want on the web site which explains to the reader what it is they have found.


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- mchan   Origami from orbit   Mar 28 2008, 01:58 AM
- - Shaka   But IMHO it's carrying "faster, cheaper, ...   Mar 28 2008, 06:10 AM
|- - MahFL   It's a paper shuttle but coated in heat resist...   Mar 28 2008, 04:22 PM
- - nprev   It's an interesting experiment in material hea...   Mar 28 2008, 04:35 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 28 2008, 08:35 AM) How...   Mar 28 2008, 08:42 PM
- - djellison   If you made, say, a thousand - stacked them up in ...   Mar 28 2008, 07:51 PM

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