The upper-right quadrant of your screen might be taken up with some interesting images...
Posted on 02/17/2014 9:16:06 AM PST by Hojczyk
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Forget the Internet - soon there will be the OUTERNET: Company plans to beam free Wi-fi to every person on Earth from space
An ambitious project known as Outernet is aiming to launch hundreds of miniature satellites into low Earth orbit by June 2015
Each satellite will broadcast the Internet to phones and computers giving billions of people across the globe free online access
Citizens of countries like China and North Korea that have censored online activity could be given free and unrestricted cyberspace 'There's really nothing that is technically impossible to this'
Known as Outernet, MDIF plans to launch hundreds of satellites into orbit by 2015.
And they say the project could provide unrestricted Internet access to countries where their web access is censored, including China and North Korea.
Using something known as datacasting technology, which involves sending data over wide radio waves, the New York-based company says they'll be able to broadcast the Internet around the world.
The group is hoping to raise tens of millions of dollars in donations to get the project on the road.
'There isn't a lot of raw research that is being done here; much of what is being described has already been proven by other small satellite programs and experiments.
There's really nothing that is technically impossible to this'
But at the prospect of telecoms operators trying to shut the project down before it gets off the ground, Karim said: 'We will fight... and win.'
If everything goes to plan, the Outernet project aims to ask NASA for permission to test the technology on the International Space Station.
And their ultimate goal will be to beginning deploying the Outernet satellites into Earth orbit, which they say can begin in June 2015.
https://www.outernet.is
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Along with a great big red "vote Rat" button for the coming all electronic voting systems controlled from central government servers.
More and more we are drawing closer to the time when “every eye shall behold Him”
The upper-right quadrant of your screen might be taken up with some interesting images...
>> If the service is given away for free then the product they are selling is you
Very well said.
Aack!
Don’t DO that!
I won’t do sat radio
No way do I want my money funding most of that crap. I mean I checked the channel listing. There is a Playboy Channel, a Sex Channel a Howard Stern Channel etc etc
Not my penny.
It is already happening.
High speed internet is being offered to families of kids on free lunch programs for $10 a month guaranteed for 2 years, YOU and I are subsidizing that on our internet bills.
Same here. I called them up last week and re-upped. I went the internet route only because I no longer have a Sirius radio. Now that they have an android app I don’t need a radio. I just plug my phone into the aux jack in my truck and I have satellite radio again. For $15.00 a month it’s a great deal.
Didn’t I see this in a movie once?...............Skynet...................
To: HojczykInteresting juxtaposition...More and more we are drawing closer to the time when “every eye shall behold Him”
To: Beowulf9
The upper-right quadrant of your screen might be taken up with some interesting images...
by COBOL2Java
Sounds like a scam to me - just going to take the donations and run.
Iridium already tried this 20 years ago, and went bankrupt. Only when the iridium assets were bought at auction for about $0.01 on the dollar has the company been able to operate the satellite constellation and make a small amount of money, mainly from the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Iridium is trying to raise the BILLIONS necessary to replace their worn-out satellites.
So if some little start-up, with one of the head guys being an university academic, thinks they can launch hundreds of satellites, operate them on a daily basis, repair/replace them when they break - ALL FOR FREE. My scam radar alarm is sounding.
If it sounds too goo to be true, it usually is...
What an opportunity for spying, hacking and information theft.
Will the Outernet also include the Outerwebs?
There are a whole lot of “if’s” there.
“There’s really nothing that is technically impossible to this”
Aside from bandwidth.
Indeed.
“No, users cannot be tracked; but no, users cannot use the Internet via Outernet. Nor can they choose the content being broadcast. This is a one way communcations mode, similar to talk radio using hypertext markup language instead of loudmouthed white men.”
A one-way broadcast. So, it won't be replacing the internet and probably won't be very popular where folks have full internet access.
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