I'm not sure either. And even if the conditions might not be the same, or they wanted to do a "prolonged test" (let's agree that any microbes traveling through space, would most likely have been traveling for more than 10 minutes), then what's to say that these microbes are identical to the one that supposedly spawned life on earth ? I'd say that the likelyhood is rather low. but then again, I guess it's not really as much a matter of proving the theory, as it is a matter of prooving that the possibility exists.
Maybe kinda like putting a taperecorder in the forrest to record the possible sound of a tree falliing ?:)
I could not agree more. Regardless of what impressions Hollywood might have put on the minds of the gullible, THERE IS NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE on the Internet. There are noone with the ability to "turn it all off". Anyone claiming so, is just rattling their sabres.
Ok... This entire discussion about cutting out the US might be a bit academic. I'll grant You that the US might hold more nodes than any other COUNTRY in the world, but certainly no more nodes than the rest of the world put together. As pertaining to Your "maps". Please bear this in mind. I've NEVER seen a US citizen (netizien or "real") who actually believed that the US was not the hub of the world, and as such did not base their concept of ANYHTING on the US. If You REALLY want to know if the world can survive without the US on the internet, don't look at the traffic generated BY the US. Look at the traffic routed THROUGH the US. Take a small country like... Say Portugal, and look at how much traffic they send THROUGH the US, not counting traffic that ends there (that would be senseless if the node was cut away). Also ask Yourself this: Would Portugal have alternate routes in place ? I'm sure that some minor countries might largely depend on bigger countries to sustain their internet access and routing information. And certainly if this pathway was lost, a lot of "damage" (logically, not phisically) would be done. Sure the routerinfo might even take a long while to recover. BUT I seriously doubt that most of us (even those of us working in the ISP business) ofhand can think of a single coutry or larger area that is wholly dependend on another (single point of failure). This is actually the POINT of the internet. Even though You might cut away pieces, the ramins should still work. I'm not saying that there are not stupid poeple out there who just say to themselves: "We'll just depend on someone else to make sure this works". But they are also the ones who get the virus in the office, they are also the ones stuck in traffic and generally the ones who are dumb enough not to think for themselves. To plan for the future. Up untill a few years ago it was actually fairly common for us in Denmark to "loose" the connection to the US, and what came of that You might ask ? Absolutely nothing. The internet worked just fine. Only the US sites were responding DAMNED slow as we had to route the other way around the world to get to them. So in essence: These maps are bogus, and provides no real insight into the US's "central role" in the internet.
cut away the spider, and the web will still be there....
As You may or may not know... What intel OFTEN does is they simply switch their production line to produce the next higer chip in line, nad then STAMP them with a lower clockspeed. Thus I've been able to buy a P233MMX sold as a P166 (even WITHOUT MMX !!!), a P2-333 stamped as a P2-266 and even a P2-450 stamped as a P2-350. I have NO DOUBT that Intel will/would have continued to use this strategy, seeing as they don't even loose money on it (only one production line needed), if this announce,ent had not been made. And I too think it's a positive step. This means that Intel for once might actually be able to focus on developing a BETTER CPU rather than just a faster CPU. Does ANYONE doubt that Intel has not made any significant advances in technology since the jump from 286 -> 386 ? (OK, so integrating the MMX into the Chip rather than letting the vendors supply it as software MIGHT be considered a technological advance, but only a small one) If You have evidence to counter that point, I can give You even more that says otherwise. I think and HOPE that Intel will stop the race to have the FASTEST clockspeed, and insted start the race to build/design the best CPU. Right now they're being beaten in innovation by Transmeta and speed by AMD, so they really should focus on new areas that would make them more appealing to us the consumers, and I for one will not buy a new CPU simply because there's a few more MHZ in it.
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I'm not sure either. And even if the conditions might not be the same, or they wanted to do a "prolonged test" (let's agree that any microbes traveling through space, would most likely have been traveling for more than 10 minutes), then what's to say that these microbes are identical to the one that supposedly spawned life on earth ? I'd say that the likelyhood is rather low. but then again, I guess it's not really as much a matter of proving the theory, as it is a matter of prooving that the possibility exists.
:)
Maybe kinda like putting a taperecorder in the forrest to record the possible sound of a tree falliing ?
I could not agree more. Regardless of what impressions Hollywood might have put on the minds of the gullible, THERE IS NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE on the Internet. There are noone with the ability to "turn it all off". Anyone claiming so, is just rattling their sabres.
Ok... This entire discussion about cutting out the US might be a bit academic. I'll grant You that the US might hold more nodes than any other COUNTRY in the world, but certainly no more nodes than the rest of the world put together.
As pertaining to Your "maps". Please bear this in mind. I've NEVER seen a US citizen (netizien or "real") who actually believed that the US was not the hub of the world, and as such did not base their concept of ANYHTING on the US. If You REALLY want to know if the world can survive without the US on the internet, don't look at the traffic generated BY the US. Look at the traffic routed THROUGH the US. Take a small country like... Say Portugal, and look at how much traffic they send THROUGH the US, not counting traffic that ends there (that would be senseless if the node was cut away). Also ask Yourself this: Would Portugal have alternate routes in place ?
I'm sure that some minor countries might largely depend on bigger countries to sustain their internet access and routing information. And certainly if this pathway was lost, a lot of "damage" (logically, not phisically) would be done. Sure the routerinfo might even take a long while to recover. BUT I seriously doubt that most of us (even those of us working in the ISP business) ofhand can think of a single coutry or larger area that is wholly dependend on another (single point of failure). This is actually the POINT of the internet. Even though You might cut away pieces, the ramins should still work. I'm not saying that there are not stupid poeple out there who just say to themselves: "We'll just depend on someone else to make sure this works". But they are also the ones who get the virus in the office, they are also the ones stuck in traffic and generally the ones who are dumb enough not to think for themselves. To plan for the future.
Up untill a few years ago it was actually fairly common for us in Denmark to "loose" the connection to the US, and what came of that You might ask ? Absolutely nothing. The internet worked just fine. Only the US sites were responding DAMNED slow as we had to route the other way around the world to get to them. So in essence: These maps are bogus, and provides no real insight into the US's "central role" in the internet.
cut away the spider, and the web will still be there....
As You may or may not know... What intel OFTEN does is they simply switch their production line to produce the next higer chip in line, nad then STAMP them with a lower clockspeed. Thus I've been able to buy a P233MMX sold as a P166 (even WITHOUT MMX !!!), a P2-333 stamped as a P2-266 and even a P2-450 stamped as a P2-350. I have NO DOUBT that Intel will/would have continued to use this strategy, seeing as they don't even loose money on it (only one production line needed), if this announce,ent had not been made. And I too think it's a positive step. This means that Intel for once might actually be able to focus on developing a BETTER CPU rather than just a faster CPU. Does ANYONE doubt that Intel has not made any significant advances in technology since the jump from 286 -> 386 ? (OK, so integrating the MMX into the Chip rather than letting the vendors supply it as software MIGHT be considered a technological advance, but only a small one) If You have evidence to counter that point, I can give You even more that says otherwise. I think and HOPE that Intel will stop the race to have the FASTEST clockspeed, and insted start the race to build/design the best CPU. Right now they're being beaten in innovation by Transmeta and speed by AMD, so they really should focus on new areas that would make them more appealing to us the consumers, and I for one will not buy a new CPU simply because there's a few more MHZ in it.