This is maybe the first year since 2015 that I haven't been in some way working on the broadcast if Eurovision song contest #esc #eurovision .
It is very strange knowing what's going on and not having the very calm calculated voice of the directors, PA, and Moritz in my ears.
I miss it. Before all hell breaks loose, a quiet person peeps up, re-organises an intercontinental operation and the ship sails on with viewers none the wiser.
- a microSD card weighs somewhere around 0.4g
- the highest capacity microSD that's easily available is 256GB
- a trebuchet can throw a 90kg projectile over 300m
90kg worth of microSD cards is 225,000 of them
Therefore a trebuchet can throw 57.6PB of data over 300m
This would have the highest throughput of any telecommunications network ever created
Mike: "OK so we are going camping with the geodesic dome at emfcamp, it will be peaceful"
Lloyd : "Cool, let's run an RSL radio station. I've applied for a licence from ofcom for £470, does Ben still have that FM transmitter?"
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"Also I've acquired this broadcast desk"
"Can you make a numbers station as a sustainer?"
You can tell if a stage light was designed in the UK:
Everything that didn't need screws has them.
Everything that didn't need inventing from scratch (e.g. PSU) will have been.
Cooling is ineffective.
It will be heavier than it needed to be.
There will be at least three times the number of required inductors.
I get nerdy about robots and automation and hyperfocus on broadcast engineering and archiving and hammocks and oh God whatever really.