From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 06:13:06 +0800
To: "Mark Grant, M.A. (Oxon)" <mark@unicorn.com>
Subject: Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers
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On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Mark Grant, M.A. (Oxon) wrote:

> About ten years ago a group I was involved with were thinking about
> putting something into space as a publicity stunt. One company we talked
> to claimed they could put 1 kg into orbit on one of their sounding rockets
> for about $ 30,000 (that's a 1 kg satellite, not $ 30,000 per kg). How

Hey! I've just had an epiphany. HOToL promised much cheaper costs to put 
things in LEO. The initial design was finished and tested, but nobody 
would provide the funds for the second round or implementation (probably 
because it wasn't French enough :) 

Nowdays, anything involving the Internet automatically gets ridiculous 
levels of funding. If we can just get John Markoff or Walter Mossberg to 
declare HOTol to be an Internet Technology they'll be able to use 
banknotes as heat shields.

Simon Spero, BSc. Eng, ACGI

{Ok, this whole thread is noise - I'm up to my eyeballs doing PKCS in 
 java, and I canna take no more :)}