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Would it be possible to have a two way conversation? Get a command line somehow?

That would so cool.

Also, what are the speeds of these signals? How long would it take to load The Pirate Bay site from a sattelite?

Badass potential.

As a satellite internet customer, I can say you're not missing a whole lot. There are indeed command frequencies for them, though. So long as they're farting all over the radio spectrum, it'd be nice to make them transmit something other then an unmodulated carrier.

Man I wonder what the plain text transmit speed would be for a sattelite.

Talk about avoiding all government censorship. lol.

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