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•Has a volume of 1 L

•Can hold up to 1 kg of equipment

•Orbits the earth every 90 minutes (e.g., NOT geosynchronous)

•Can use space data transfer protocols and the Interstellar Internet to work together with many other cubesats

• Screenshot of Lab playtest

Starts NOW! Ends Thursday 2 PM.

lab.signtific.org

Follow the game on Twitter: signtificlab

Webstock: 3508 ideas! CeBit: 951 ideas!

Etech: ##,### ???

HOW TO MAKE A SUPER-INTERESTING

FORECAST1) Assume all of the super-obvious problems have been SOLVED. How?

2) Say the things only YOU could think of.

(your job, your org, your industry, your city…)

TRY IT at least 3 TIMES

•1st thought: obvious, knee-jerk

•2nd thought: witty, cute, smart-ass.

•3rd response: new, thoughtful and probably surprising.

WE LOVE OUTLIERS.

OUTLIER FAIL • Junk in space

•Falling junk in space

•Porn in space

•Terrorists in space

•Stalking from space

•Reality TV from space

OUTLIER WIN•DIY space research

•Crowdsourced eco-monitoring

•Disaster spotting & response

•Hacking democracy from space

•News from space, games in space

•Entrepreneurs, Social capital in space

•STUFF WE NEVER THOUGHT OF

Sounds like: “scientific”.

Spells like: “What’s your “sign?”

LAB.SIGNTIFIC.ORG