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Could We Beam Broadband Internet Into Iran?
abenamer writes "Some reporter at a recent White House press briefing just asked the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, this question: Was 'the White House....considering beaming broad capability into Iran via satellite so the opposition forces would be able to communicate with themselves and the outside world?' 'Gibbs said he didn't know such a thing was possible. (Is it?) But he said he would check on the technological feasibility and get back with an answer.' I'm not sure what the reporter meant by beaming broadband into Iran: Do they even have 3G? Would we bomb the Iranians with SIM cards that would allow them to get text messages from the VOA? Or somehow put up massive Wi-Fi transmitters from Iraq and beam it into Iran? How would you beam broadband into Iran?"
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Could they beam broadband into New York City first? Thanks.
Camels with Wifi!
Just make the balloons festive colors and tell them we're throwing a nationwide party for Achmadinejad to celebrate his election. Air drop some party hats and noise makers. I'm sure they won't suspect a thing.
We would have to ask Scotty if we had enough power to beam broadband.
Would Muslims want to use ham radio?
Do they make Halal Pringles?
Give the handsets to the guys who smuggle booze in over the Turkish border. They've been giving Iranian authorities the runaround for years.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Some are born with Internet, some pay a lot for Internet, and others have Internet thrust upon them.
Where there any revolutions recorded in history before the internet existed? Sorry if this seems like a dumb question. Maybe someone is doing their thesis on it or something.
They also know nothing about routers, packets, fiber or anything that would explain how those videos get from YouTube to their iphones. My wife tells me that most people are living in a world where all sorts of neat stuff happens magically, and when it stops happening the only real solution is to call some company (or, if they're lucky, a sufficiently tech-savvy friend) that can make that magic start working again.
This is fairly disturbing.
They also know nothing about organs, surgery, medicine or anything that would explain how their bodies work and continue to function each day. My wife tells me that most people are living in a world where all sorts of amazing biology happens magically, and when it stops happening the only real solution is to call some doctor that can make that magic start working again.
This is fairly disturbing.
Guess he meant to say we don't legally sell guns to Iran.
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If you gave the Iranians access to the internet, they'd just suck up all the bandwidth with YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and Second Life. Half of them would be inspired to overthrow their government, and the other half would see the outside world as a vast wasteland, and embrace their isolation. I'm pretty sure that this is why North Korea's like this. They saw an episode of "Mr. Ed" and decided that isolationism isn't so bad after all.
We could always just use hot air balloons like in this comic here... http://toblender.com/comic/?p=360