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Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi SupercomputerSouthampton engineers a Raspberry Pi SupercomputerPosted Sep 16, 2012 4:39 UTC (Sun) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)In reply to: Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer by dlang Parent article: Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer That $8K doesn't include your ride to space. It's a sin to send crap into space. At least the LEO orbits don't pollute orbital space for long, they de-orbit fast enough. But given the cost, and the fact that so few people can get their experiments flown, it is the experimenter's responsibility to not be frivolous. Sending up something that can't dissipate its own heat, that outgasses the electrolyte from its capacitors, etc., is just stupid and wasteful.
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Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer Posted Sep 16, 2012 20:00 UTC (Sun) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] Oops, they say it does include a ride to space. But they are a year late in launching any. It seems a very low cost for such a ride, and the satellite design looks kind of lame too - solar panel area is really small, transceivers very low powered, etc.And they are also advertising a lunar sample return mission! File under "too ambitious to be real" for now.
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