#solarpunk #radio blueprint project!

https://hermes.radio/

> Together with social organizations and remote communities, first in the Amazon rainforest, and then around the world, we have been dreaming about, designing, building and testing HERMES since 2017 to create reliable, secure, long-range, autonomous voice and digital communications.

> Powered by HF radio, HERMES enables voice and data communication over vast distances (hundreds of kilometers) with very low power consumption.

Lovely Peeps! Your cool #history for the day! 🚀

(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words & I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)

If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊

"Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.

But nobody’s talking about the #Deaf men who made it possible.

In the late 1950s, #NASA had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick.

So they came to #Gallaudet.

Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space.

No #Gallaudet_Eleven — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II.

Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth & came home safely.

They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of.

Now you know!"

#Artemis2 #ASL #History #TIL #Nyle_di_Marco

Have you ever thought about giving up tech to work on trying to make the world a better place? I have, for five years. It’s been my life for 60 hours a week.

I’ve been consistently broke and happy about it, but when my charity had to take on a loan to buy 84 acres of land… I worry.

I need this crowdfunder to work, or we are absolutely fucked. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-nature-reserve

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