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Students Call Space Station With Home-Built Radio 330

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @11:34AM from the prince-albert-in-a-tin-can dept.

Pizzutz writes "Four Toronto college students have accomplished a technological feat that their teachers are calling a first. The Humber College seniors made contact with the International Space Station Monday with a radio system they designed and built themselves. School officials say that, to their knowledge, that's never been accomplished by students at the college level." Somewhat disappointingly, the students actually did have permission to make contact.

Comment Utterly desperate gesture... (Score 1) 1813

by ropley on Friday August 29, 2008 @06:57PM (#24803327) Attached to: McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate

... by McCain. Despite the more-or-less balanced polls, he must have been shitting bricks to have listened to his advisors long enough to have agreed to this. What a proud, principled ticket this now is - a bellicose warmonger, backed up by a happy-clappy who doesn't 'get' science. Whew.

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