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Operation: "Watch F1 In 2012".

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:23:09 -0500

At the end of July it was announced that, from 2012, live coverage of Formula One in the UK would be shared between the BBC and Sky Sports. You’re probably aware of that by now.

I do not have a great deal of money. Currently we have a basic Sky subscription - essentially, most channels except the Sky Movies and Sky Sports packs - at a slightly discounted rate, after having called Sky and wheedled a bit about being poor. We pay £23 per month for this subscription, rising to £24.50 per month when the discount period finishes. For the Sky Sports Pack, consisting of five standard definition Sky Sports channels, we would have to pay £20 extra a month. Here’s the maths bit - that’s £240 per year on top of the current subscription.

This prohibitive cost means that watching F1 on Sky Sports in 2012 is absolutely not an option for me, unless I traverse Hampshire to watch each Sky race at my grandparents’ house. I don’t think turning up on their doorstep at five in the morning for the Korean Grand Prix would be very endearing.

So, what are the other options? Illegal streaming? Not reliable enough, in my American motorsports-watching experience. Watch the races in a pub? That would mean being sociable, not to mention the problem presented by the flyaway races. Watch the BBC’s highlights several hours after each race? No no no no no no no no with knobs on. Buy a second satellite dish, point it at Astra 19.2°E and receive European channels that show F1 for free? Well, now…

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discoverynews: Satellite Finally Crashes and Sprays Debris Over...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:23:09 -0500

discoverynews:

Satellite Finally Crashes and Sprays Debris Over the Pacific and Canada

Operation: "Watch F1 In 2012".

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:23:08 -0500

lookingspiffy:

At the end of July it was announced that, from 2012, live coverage of Formula One in the UK would be shared between the BBC and Sky Sports. You’re probably aware of that by now.

I do not have a great deal of money. Currently we have a basic Sky subscription - essentially, most channels except the Sky Movies and Sky Sports packs - at a slightly discounted rate, after having called Sky and wheedled a bit about being poor. We pay £23 per month for this subscription, rising to £24.50 per month when the discount period finishes. For the Sky Sports Pack, consisting of five standard definition Sky Sports channels, we would have to pay £20 extra a month. Here’s the maths bit - that’s £240 per year on top of the current subscription.

This prohibitive cost means that watching F1 on Sky Sports in 2012 is absolutely not an option for me, unless I traverse Hampshire to watch each Sky race at my grandparents’ house. I don’t think turning up on their doorstep at five in the morning for the Korean Grand Prix would be very endearing.

So, what are the other options? Illegal streaming? Not reliable enough, in my American motorsports-watching experience. Watch the races in a pub? That would mean being sociable, not to mention the problem presented by the flyaway races. Watch the BBC’s highlights several hours after each race? No no no no no no no no with knobs on. Buy a second satellite dish, point it at Astra 19.2°E and receive European channels that show F1 for free? Well, now…

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fastestpossible: a Satellite, in 14.5 seconds. I want you to go...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:23:04 -0500

fastestpossible:

a Satellite, in 14.5 seconds.

I want you to go back a hundred years, to 1911. That year, a pilot landed on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania—the first time anybody had landed an aircraft on a ship. Eight years earlier, the Wright Brothers achieved powered flight for the first time in history. Superconductivity was discovered in April, and on the night it happened, the sky was devoid of everything but rocks and ice.

It wasn’t until 1957 that the Soviet Union flew Sputnik 1 into low Earth orbit—the first artificial satellite. Within four years, there were a hundred and fifteen. Today, roughly three thousand artificial satellites hover over the earth, in a freakishly-crowded net of orbits. We take their presence up there so much for granted that we barely consider the possibility that the term “satellite” might refer to anything other than a man-made, multi-million-dollar space machine.

Satellites today perform a vast range of sophisticated tasks for us: observing the sun, transmitting phone calls, broadcasting reruns of Seinfeld, and directing us to the nearest highway exit. Some, we presume, perform more secretive tasks (though none nearly as creepy as that of the second Sputnik, whose only doomed passenger was a part-Samoyed terrier named Laika). Up there, hundreds of experiments and millions of words and bits and images pass silently in the night in a tangled mess of complex purposes and plans. By contrast, that first, lonely Sputnik’s only directive was simple—to beep, regularly, in all directions.

That’s what our Fastest Possible Satellite is up to (though the term “boop” seemed more hilarious as I drew it). The radiating arcs that we now think of as a Wi-Fi symbol are, to my mind, the universal sign for transmission-from-space, and here indicate the travel of a benign “boop” towards some small hamlet in Brazil. Finally, our Fastest Possible Satellite has two dish antennas: one pointed out to space, listening for news from friends; and the other pointed down at us, to remind us that it is up there, keeping us company and helping us find our way home.

It's Full of Stars: ISS could be used for satellite assembly until 2028

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:23:03 -0500

It's Full of Stars: ISS could be used for satellite assembly until 2028:

itsfullofstars:

The service life of the International Space Station (ISS) may be extended until 2028, a Russian space official said on Tuesday.

The service life of the ISS ends in 2015 but participants of the project – Canada, the European Union, Japan, Russia and the United States – have recently agreed to…

It's Full of Stars: ISS could be used for satellite assembly until 2028

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:23:02 -0500

It's Full of Stars: ISS could be used for satellite assembly until 2028:

itsfullofstars:

The service life of the International Space Station (ISS) may be extended until 2028, a Russian space official said on Tuesday.

The service life of the ISS ends in 2015 but participants of the project – Canada, the European Union, Japan, Russia and the United States – have recently agreed to…

huffingtonpost: AOL TV’s Chris Harnick fulfilled his lifelong...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:23:01 -0500

huffingtonpost:

AOL TV’s Chris Harnick fulfilled his lifelong passion recently. Click ahead to make fun of how awkward he looks next to real actors.

I Was an Extra on ‘Law & Order: SVU’

theeconomist: Daily chart: two decades of satellite...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:23:00 -0500

theeconomist:

Daily chart: two decades of satellite launches. Last year 13 out of 26 satellite launches were Russian; in 2010 China launched more satellites than America, for the first time ever.

The New Aesthetic: Hackers interfered with the operation of two U.S. government...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:22:59 -0500

The New Aesthetic: Hackers interfered with the operation of two U.S. government...:

new-aesthetic:

Hackers interfered with the operation of two U.S. government satellites in 2007 and 2008, according to a report to be released next month from a congressional commission.

The hackers obtained access to the satellites through a ground station in Norway, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

The New Aesthetic: Hackers interfered with the operation of two U.S. government...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:22:58 -0500

The New Aesthetic: Hackers interfered with the operation of two U.S. government...:

new-aesthetic:

Hackers interfered with the operation of two U.S. government satellites in 2007 and 2008, according to a report to be released next month from a congressional commission.

The hackers obtained access to the satellites through a ground station in Norway, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

theeconomist: Daily chart: two decades of satellite...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:22:57 -0500

theeconomist:

Daily chart: two decades of satellite launches. Last year 13 out of 26 satellite launches were Russian; in 2010 China launched more satellites than America, for the first time ever.

huffingtonpost: AOL TV’s Chris Harnick fulfilled his lifelong...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:22:56 -0500

huffingtonpost:

AOL TV’s Chris Harnick fulfilled his lifelong passion recently. Click ahead to make fun of how awkward he looks next to real actors.

I Was an Extra on ‘Law & Order: SVU’

fastestpossible: a Satellite, in 14.5 seconds. I want you to go...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:22:51 -0500

fastestpossible:

a Satellite, in 14.5 seconds.

I want you to go back a hundred years, to 1911. That year, a pilot landed on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania—the first time anybody had landed an aircraft on a ship. Eight years earlier, the Wright Brothers achieved powered flight for the first time in history. Superconductivity was discovered in April, and on the night it happened, the sky was devoid of everything but rocks and ice.

It wasn’t until 1957 that the Soviet Union flew Sputnik 1 into low Earth orbit—the first artificial satellite. Within four years, there were a hundred and fifteen. Today, roughly three thousand artificial satellites hover over the earth, in a freakishly-crowded net of orbits. We take their presence up there so much for granted that we barely consider the possibility that the term “satellite” might refer to anything other than a man-made, multi-million-dollar space machine.

Satellites today perform a vast range of sophisticated tasks for us: observing the sun, transmitting phone calls, broadcasting reruns of Seinfeld, and directing us to the nearest highway exit. Some, we presume, perform more secretive tasks (though none nearly as creepy as that of the second Sputnik, whose only doomed passenger was a part-Samoyed terrier named Laika). Up there, hundreds of experiments and millions of words and bits and images pass silently in the night in a tangled mess of complex purposes and plans. By contrast, that first, lonely Sputnik’s only directive was simple—to beep, regularly, in all directions.

That’s what our Fastest Possible Satellite is up to (though the term “boop” seemed more hilarious as I drew it). The radiating arcs that we now think of as a Wi-Fi symbol are, to my mind, the universal sign for transmission-from-space, and here indicate the travel of a benign “boop” towards some small hamlet in Brazil. Finally, our Fastest Possible Satellite has two dish antennas: one pointed out to space, listening for news from friends; and the other pointed down at us, to remind us that it is up there, keeping us company and helping us find our way home.

discoverynews: Satellite Finally Crashes and Sprays Debris Over...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:22:45 -0500

discoverynews:

Satellite Finally Crashes and Sprays Debris Over the Pacific and Canada

Saorview

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:09:19 -0500

This is where it can be found http://saor-view-satellite-installations-ireland.com