imagine the hilarious conversation between the OP and his buddies/colleagues
"What did you do this weekend?"
OP: "Drank some beer and sent some SMS through space"
(2020)
For a second, I thought the title was “…through ISIS.”
This is really neat, glad it made it to the front page! An interesting next step could be: do it with a budget of less than $x, gradually decreasing x each time.
I read about something called othernet that allows receving those messages with a parabolic antenna