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Whatever Happened To The Mars Network?

Posted by timothy on from the blast-from-the-recent-past dept.

mhw25 writes "There is a NASA/JPL project, conceptualised back in 1999, that proposed to launch a Mars Network. It boldly projected that "Deployment of a prototype Microsat, tentatively scheduled for 2003, would be the first step in creating this Mars "Internet."" With 2003 drawing to a close and no .mars domain registration offered, perhaps it is time NASA and other space agencies to rethink and revisit this worthy project, especially in light of the recent problems faced by the Beagle2."

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  1. New Usenet Newsgroups by rudy_wayne · · Score: 4, Funny

    alt.binaries.martian.pr0n

    Cool!!

  2. News Flash! by bedessen · · Score: 4, Funny

    News Flash -- Impressive thing of the future fails to materialize as promised. Advocates of the flying car, personal nuclear generator, and personal rocket packs send their condolences to anyone holding out for hopes of an interplanetary network anytime soon.

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