The issues is not one of dependencies, it is one of necessity. We would not enable proprietary drivers just for fun (they are already *there* just not used by default). We will only enable them if there is some free software functionality that is important and in turn depends on them. The closest we have to that is Compiz or Beryl (TuxRacer is fun but doesn't count as essential) and neither of these is yet ready to be included in Ubuntu by default. Therefor, there is no free software component of Ubuntu that depends on the drivers, therefor we don't enable them by default.
There have quite a number of successful "fertilization" experiments in both the Russian and US space science programs. Apart from human fertilization, we have to find out what species can be bred in space for long-term food sources. We have some stem cell research planned which is also related to the behaviour of cells in microgravity.
We have some good protein crystallization experiments, in immunology and African disease research, already lined up.
Yes, unmanned space science is much more cost effective for those types of science that CAN be done without human interaction. But unmanned flight will never put a (hu)man on another planet, and sooner or later, we need to grow beyond Earth.
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The issues is not one of dependencies, it is one of necessity. We would not enable proprietary drivers just for fun (they are already *there* just not used by default). We will only enable them if there is some free software functionality that is important and in turn depends on them. The closest we have to that is Compiz or Beryl (TuxRacer is fun but doesn't count as essential) and neither of these is yet ready to be included in Ubuntu by default. Therefor, there is no free software component of Ubuntu that depends on the drivers, therefor we don't enable them by default.
Single install CD with a full desktop and core server packages, anything else is available off the online archive.
There have quite a number of successful "fertilization" experiments in both the Russian and US space science programs. Apart from human fertilization, we have to find out what species can be bred in space for long-term food sources. We have some stem cell research planned which is also related to the behaviour of cells in microgravity.
We have some good protein crystallization experiments, in immunology and African disease research, already lined up.
Yes, unmanned space science is much more cost effective for those types of science that CAN be done without human interaction. But unmanned flight will never put a (hu)man on another planet, and sooner or later, we need to grow beyond Earth.