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Hackers in Space

90 points by c3o 15y ago

derrida 15y ago
Other interesting projects include an attempt to have a transparent open source leaking platform to carry on Wikileaks legacy.
- Joakal 15y ago
  OpenLeaks; "Instead of publishing the documents, OpenLeaks will send the leaked documents to various news entities or publishers." Wish I was kidding: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Openleaks https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Openleaks
  - derrida 15y ago
    I agree this policy of OpenLeaks is a bit dubious. The project the Chaos Computer Club are working on is called 'GlobalLeaks'. I cannot determine if it is going to be respectable. EDIT: Just saw that OpenLeaks are going to be at the conference. GlobalLeaks is a group attempting to create open source leaking platform. It might be that 'OpenLeaks' = 'GlobalLeaks'
stcredzero 15y ago
phase two: Put a hacker into orbit. Phase 2.5: console widow, figure out how to get him back down. Alternate phase 2: send cat into space instead, start new meme and initiate hacker war with PETA. (jk)
- pdelgallego 15y ago
  Phase 2 is already in progress. Check out the Copenhagen Suborbitals guys, they launch succesfuly their first suborbital rocket a month ago. http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/ http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
  - gimpf 15y ago
    Nice video on their page. I especially loved their "caution fragile" marker -- on a rocket!
bazookaBen 15y ago
Are there going to be presentation slides / videos / ustreams? Would like to cross the atlantic to come see but can't.
- rb2k_ 15y ago
  They usually are recorded. The last camp apparently was in 2007: http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/CCCamp07/video/m4v/ http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/CCCamp07/video/m4v/ (More events: http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/ http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/ )
Joakal 15y ago
The Hacker Space Program should tackle the next piracy: 3D printing (Formally known as Reprap) [0]. [0] http://reprap.org/wiki/EndOfIntellectualProperty http://reprap.org/wiki/EndOfIntellectualProperty
tonfa 15y ago
FYI, it's a 3500 attendee camp. It is also almost sold out (presale currently), so if you plan to attend and don't have a ticket, now is a good time.
gimpf 15y ago
Thanks to emerging low-cost satellite launches (like from http://interorbital.com/ http://interorbital.com/), fun projects like http://sat.mur.at/ http://sat.mur.at/ are already in the real of being possible. I may be an hopeless optimist, but some relatively low-bandwidth hacker-operated satellite network within 20 years is not totally impossible.
- eru 15y ago
  In twenty years, as long as you got something up, it will be high bandwidth compared with today.
peterwwillis 15y ago
Considering how most hackers build stuff at hackerspaces ("i don't know how to build this, so let's go with trial and error and learn as we go!") this sounds dangerous. But cool.
ANH 15y ago
Neat, but in order for me to take this seriously they have to at least spell 'satellite' correctly.
pasbesoin 15y ago
I can't be the only one with a sudden, fond memory of the Muppets. Which I find, indeed, hackerish. Jim Henson and crew hacked an entire presentation medium, mainstreaming an entire character type (the puppet, formerly relegated to kids shows and ventriloquists). I hope this combination of earnest endeavor and levity can escape our gravity well.
agentultra 15y ago
Sounds like it might be a little more expensive than an arduino kit and some free time. Yet I remain optimistic that it might eventually only cost the same as a transatlantic flight does today to get a 180lb human into orbit. PCs were started this way...
binbasti 15y ago
By the way, we'll set up a Ruby village at the Camp. Come and join us: http://railscamp.github.com/ruby-village http://railscamp.github.com/ruby-village You can also just support our cause to spread some Ruby love with a few bucks in our Pledgie, which is only 50% complete at the moment: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/15397 http://pledgie.com/campaigns/15397
cyrus_ 15y ago
This is absurd -- the hacker movement is too small and undisciplined, and it lacks substantial knowledge about engineering and physics, to make this its central project for the next 30+ years. I'm all for big projects, but the hacker community should focus on what it knows how to do -- write software.

90 points by c3o 15y ago

Other interesting projects include an attempt to have a transparent open source leaking platform to carry on Wikileaks legacy.

Joakal 15y ago
OpenLeaks; "Instead of publishing the documents, OpenLeaks will send the leaked documents to various news entities or publishers." Wish I was kidding: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Openleaks https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Openleaks
- derrida 15y ago
  I agree this policy of OpenLeaks is a bit dubious. The project the Chaos Computer Club are working on is called 'GlobalLeaks'. I cannot determine if it is going to be respectable. EDIT: Just saw that OpenLeaks are going to be at the conference. GlobalLeaks is a group attempting to create open source leaking platform. It might be that 'OpenLeaks' = 'GlobalLeaks'

stcredzero 15y ago

phase two: Put a hacker into orbit. Phase 2.5: console widow, figure out how to get him back down. Alternate phase 2: send cat into space instead, start new meme and initiate hacker war with PETA. (jk)

pdelgallego 15y ago
Phase 2 is already in progress. Check out the Copenhagen Suborbitals guys, they launch succesfuly their first suborbital rocket a month ago. http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/ http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
- gimpf 15y ago
  Nice video on their page. I especially loved their "caution fragile" marker -- on a rocket!

bazookaBen 15y ago

Are there going to be presentation slides / videos / ustreams? Would like to cross the atlantic to come see but can't.

rb2k_ 15y ago
They usually are recorded. The last camp apparently was in 2007: http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/CCCamp07/video/m4v/ http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/CCCamp07/video/m4v/ (More events: http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/ http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/CCC/ )

Joakal 15y ago

The Hacker Space Program should tackle the next piracy: 3D printing (Formally known as Reprap) [0]. [0] http://reprap.org/wiki/EndOfIntellectualProperty http://reprap.org/wiki/EndOfIntellectualProperty

tonfa 15y ago

FYI, it's a 3500 attendee camp. It is also almost sold out (presale currently), so if you plan to attend and don't have a ticket, now is a good time.

gimpf 15y ago

Thanks to emerging low-cost satellite launches (like from http://interorbital.com/ http://interorbital.com/), fun projects like http://sat.mur.at/ http://sat.mur.at/ are already in the real of being possible. I may be an hopeless optimist, but some relatively low-bandwidth hacker-operated satellite network within 20 years is not totally impossible.

eru 15y ago
In twenty years, as long as you got something up, it will be high bandwidth compared with today.

peterwwillis 15y ago

Considering how most hackers build stuff at hackerspaces ("i don't know how to build this, so let's go with trial and error and learn as we go!") this sounds dangerous. But cool.

ANH 15y ago

Neat, but in order for me to take this seriously they have to at least spell 'satellite' correctly.

pasbesoin 15y ago

I can't be the only one with a sudden, fond memory of the Muppets. Which I find, indeed, hackerish. Jim Henson and crew hacked an entire presentation medium, mainstreaming an entire character type (the puppet, formerly relegated to kids shows and ventriloquists). I hope this combination of earnest endeavor and levity can escape our gravity well.

agentultra 15y ago

Sounds like it might be a little more expensive than an arduino kit and some free time. Yet I remain optimistic that it might eventually only cost the same as a transatlantic flight does today to get a 180lb human into orbit. PCs were started this way...

binbasti 15y ago

By the way, we'll set up a Ruby village at the Camp. Come and join us: http://railscamp.github.com/ruby-village http://railscamp.github.com/ruby-village You can also just support our cause to spread some Ruby love with a few bucks in our Pledgie, which is only 50% complete at the moment: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/15397 http://pledgie.com/campaigns/15397

cyrus_ 15y ago

This is absurd -- the hacker movement is too small and undisciplined, and it lacks substantial knowledge about engineering and physics, to make this its central project for the next 30+ years. I'm all for big projects, but the hacker community should focus on what it knows how to do -- write software.