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By Project Calliope | March 16th 2010 02:41 PM | 4 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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'Project Calliope' is a satellite funded by Science 2.0 and being launched by a mad scientist who is a space & music enthusiast. It's launching...

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I'm launching a satellite to make music from the ionosphere. But what would that look like, in a dramatic sense? In an evocative sense?

In a perfect world, I could just ask a couple of children to draw me their impression of what 'a satellite making music out of the ionosphere' would look like. Since we live in a perfect world, I did that.

The absolute coolest thing to come out of this was a new Calliope tagphrase: 'Around the world in 48 beats'.





 
 'Around the world in 48 Beats', by Ivy

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'Project Calliope', by Ivy

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 'Logo', by Max

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 'I can't draw', by Sandy


Feel free to post your own pictures in the comments section!

Alex

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Comments

gospel_virus
I think that is officially the coolest tagline for a science project ever.

antunes
Interesting... you have to be logged in (i.e. join) to be able to post images.  I should'va checked before I wrote this.


Hank
Bereft of a bloated corporate infrastructure, the amount of moderation we would have to do for anonymous images would be ... I don't know what it would be. A lot of work, though.

Don't you just love children's imaginations? Love the drawings!

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