BTW, some ESA members like Norway or Switzerland do not belong to the European Union. The ESA and "Europe" (as UE) have probably links must the ESA is not the NASA from the UE.
(And the UE is only half or Europe now, and 2/3 next years).
The race to space and to the Moon between Russia and the US had political motivations, but these two countries achieved much more by competition than by any other way. Cooperation, sadly, is not enough to raise enough funds and take risky decisions.
Western European countries had political goals too (avoid dependance on the US), but competition was good there too : AFAIK, Ariane 4 was cheaper and safer than any other launchers for bug satellites (I don't know the market now).
Brazil, India, China, Japan, Israel, have space programs. Motivation are nationalism, security, sometimes science, a need to launch alone military satellites, demonstration of power to scare enemies, but we may all profit of this in the long term (cheap satellites, tourism on the Moon, scientists on Mars...).
I hope Brazil won't stop its program after this failure. If at first you don't succeed...
Do you seriously think that such a huge firm would not have already for YEARS deployed in labs the software of what it claims is one of its major competitors ???
Either it's already done, and it's not news, or they go to the next level and try to see if they can port some software (not that I believe we'll see Office or SQLServer on Linux someday, but Balmer or Gates must want to know if it is possible, just in case that had to change their direction 180 once again ), or just want to validate that MS software interoperates well (ie: as poorly as possible) with Linux.
...if a hacker (or a friendly foreign governemen) breaks into this system and changes results to elect Bin Laden as President of the US.
Then, people would see the danger and care.
(I'm dead serious!!)
Even if technically feasible (others here think it is not, but cheap 'hot' supraconductors could appear tomorrow), rich countries have enough problems securing their oil supply, to add another dependency with power! It would be "logical" to put solar panels in Sahara to 'feed' Europe, but then Algeria, Lybia & so on would have the power to 'switch off' whole countries. I suppose the US would be solar-self-sufficient anyway, and Japan and Europe could put panels on the sea.
There is enough solar power, and wind power and geothermy, and tidal power, and nuclear (even oil or coal), even in winter, for each continent to provide its own energy. If only we REALLY wanted.
I hope we'll see such rulings (even not yet definitive) more often. Media conglomerates may have bought half of America and a third of the European Parlement, they are still some people left whose jobs are to be sure that laws have to be in sync with the higest values of the constitution of their country. They is only one Supreme Court in the US, there are one in EACH country of the EU that could be a counter-power to each stupid law.
>Jupiter will get its own IPv6 network, is my >understanding of how networking on a celestial >scale is to work
OK. Now we're back to NAT, on a planetary scale, after everybody who used to do it in the 1990-2020 years died, and all OS deprecated their NAT-modules. Fine.
Where is the progress ?;-)
When people are connected to the Internet, they usually obtain one public IP, usually not static. If the fridge, the DVD player, the printer, gets its own IP, it will be a private one, NAT-ed, and somewhat protected from the outside.
The IPv6 world won't know NAT, as its goal is somewhat to destroy it. Someone from Australia could connect to my fridge if everything in house becomes connected. It all becomes wireless, you'll even forget that your camera is on the net. Even with a much greater address space, we'll all need to firewall our connections.
I suppose that easy-to-use firewalls will be in every home in a few years. Still, any failure in programming them, any exploit in a well-known brand, could lead to a disaster for people much greater than having its computer hacked: fridge at 20C, heating at 40C, camera becoming a public webcam, TV and DVD giving back what you've seen yesterday, palm giving your agenda to the world...
Fast forward 50 or 100 years... Everyone has Internet-enabled tools, chairs, glasses... whatever, because everything has a RFID inside, because the TPAA (Things producers Ass. of A.) wants to track everything, because some geeks have found a use to a connection between my pen and my fridge, because it is so easy and cheap...
1) BUT this tendency to Internet-enable everything will expand to any file on my computer. A CD has a RFID/IP to connect it to the desk, why not every of my MP3? Why a book and not on e-book ? A computer will needs millions of IP addresses.
2) Worse: we'll finish as virtual beings in the in virtual words (think Ultima Online in 2100). And we'll want everything in this world to have Internet addresses too. I'll ask my little desktop computer to create my own little Matrix, for me alone... and everything there has an address of the IPv6 space (to help me interconnect the real and the virtual world).
And if it's not enough:
3) Cyber beings (a few billions humans, much much much virtual intelligent creatures) find the world rather small for so many entities. Not enough computers on this small planet to compute all the worlds that each entity wants created for itself (and to run the compilation of the 10^15 lines of the brand new Linux 2.80.0). So the Metamegamatrix expands to Jupiter, Saturn and creates a Dyson sphere aroud the Sun, converting every joule of energy into computational power for the simulation.
And in 2203, Slashdot makes headlines on IPv9 with 2048 bits addresses.
>So it should, even in French, still be 'e-mail' >(with an acute on the e).
No, because foreign words are usually imported with their pronunciation. So the 'e' is spoken the English way like a French 'i', and it blows up the (already shaky) logic between sounds and letters in French. To recover this logic without changing the way it is said would require to write 'i-mail'. (France Telecom tried this with its 'i-Minitel').
I'm French, and I understand both sides:
- Too many foreign words in a language make its internal logic weaker, and messes up the sounds (that should be written 'i-mail' in French). A few words from all over the world make a language healthier, a massive amount from one single source (US) is cultural assimilation.
- This is still far less dangerous than attacking grammar, acronyms madness or putting all ads on French TV in English (yeah, even for Fiat or Alcatel).
- 'Courriel' comes from Canada, where they are much better than French to find 'good' replacement words. A bit too zealous sometimes but this is an everyday battle, like against MS.
- Anyway, finding a translation of word should be done rather early, not 7 years after everybody starts using it!
- In this particular case, I don't mind telling 'email'. In fact, it very often becomes 'mail', which fits perfectly in French (writing, pronunciation, and etymology). And it implies automatically that it goes through the Internet (they didn't try to change this last word BTW).
Article slashdotted, so the following may be inaccurate. But I think that with inkblots:
- I can't so easily write the 'password' into my agenda or my Palm to remember months later.
- Either we will have the same faces or pictures on all computers, or every system will have a different set of pictures that the people must 'learn'. You don't learn a new alphabet each time you have a new account, do you? That would enforce change of password with different accounts, but also make it harder to have a unique password for uncritical things (news websites...).
- No physical remembering of the passwords. (Yes, my muscles remember better some complicated passwords than my brain; yes I'm a geek).
- One more way for MS to protect his monopoly - you don't expect the pictures to be free of rights, do you?
- It takes longer to click on pictures than to type the same passwords each day.
- You won't have to be next to someone to learn its password; the other side of the room will be enough.
- Anyway, the choice of the pictures must be translated into something that the computer understands. Basically, it's a keyword. If 'red flower-pretty girl-blue car' is stored as 'WYZ' in a file somewhere, I don't see much progress.
With this logic:
I own a knife, so I am a murderer. I even own many knives, so I am a mass murderer.
I own a CD burner, so I must be guilty of copyright infringement (no: theft of IP) on 2/3 of the MPAA catalog, and I will have to give them 99% of my earnings during my whole life.
So, as a criminal, I've got nothing else to lose, and I can go shoot their lawyers; they destroyed my life, so I'll shorten theirs. And the world may be a better place after that.
Hey, this is the thinking beside any desesperate terrorism (Palestinians, poor people in corrupted countries, and so on)!
I wish I could say I'm happy not to live in the US, but this insanity comes slowly into Europe too. I'm afraid getting rid of all lawyers would not be enough.
(PS: Message for you little CIA computer reading all the web searching for terrorists: no, I don't intend to kill anybody. Please don't file me as a terrorist for explaining how this insane system will create them. Thanks.)
I wonder on which continent this problem happened. I'm working in a Vaio factory outside the US (I'm not from Sony), does that mean that I should fear for my life every time the telephone rings? And for the colleagues who ARE working with VAIOs? (I am not):-)
In the EU, we have a common currency (well, 12 countries on 15), but postal and bank charges, and cultural habits are still a problem to international business.
I wanted to buy a Palm Zire. Price is okay in France, where I live, but warranty is 1 year.
In Germany the warranty is 2 years, and it matters for such items (already burnt by a 700 digital camera whose screen died 13 months after buying). It seemed like a good idea; the VAT is even less (16% against 19.6%).
I live near the border, but the local German stores were too expensive. I found some websites, but was deceived: many of them do not accept credit cards, the Germans are not used to it so much. They like direct transfers from account to account ("Überweisung"). On the contrary, French online sellers all accept credit cards for 20 years (*). Direct transfers are very seldom or for firms (salary), and expensive. I would have to pay ~15 to send the money, or wait more than a week!
(And this including the recent EU laws that don't allow banks to charge more for transfers in between EU countries than inside their own country.)
International postage was much much more expensive: 22 from the German sites... againt 0 from a Parisian well-known site. And this is only postage; I don't think the German handler would have had to fill much paperwork.
So postage cost+bank cost+bank delay+shipping delay win on warranty+small win on VAT. I've bought online from Paris.
And I'm fluent in German. Language barrier is another big problem for many people (even English for much Frenchies).
So our friend from Hungary may have problems too, even when its country will enter the European Union next year. (Gargl, 10 new countries at a time, it will be a nice mess...)
I'm French, in France. Not exactly 3rd world with massive insecurity, we have smart cards and online banking for 15 years.
A few months ago, I decided to subscribe to/. I give my Eurocard/Mastercard (accepted by Amazon FR,UK & US), and I receive a mail that this is refused, as the risk factor is too high!
It was during the Irak crisis, so/. perhaps thought that France and US would be at war 2 weeks later?:-)
Or, more probably my address in a.cc domain (Coco Islands, Australian territory) raised a trigger in the database.
Anyway, I complained by mail. No answer, but it succeeded when I tried again a few weeks later.
My favorite geek newspaper is C't (If you speak German, this must be the best "Computer technik" newspaper in Europe).
If I must take a shot of each potentially interesting page, that would be 200 pages... every two weeks... There are not so much ads in it.
Better pay the 3 euros and go home with it!
The 42" laptop, which a screen which unfolds when opening the case. Perfect for people living all week long in hotels and want films, and geeks who have never enough place on their screen and never enough different desktops.
Can't wait to see it...
OK, it is huge. OK, it has a small battery life.
But does everybody need a small and totally cordless laptop ?
What about people who travel much but need the computer only on a desk with electrivity ? And want to see films ?
What about people who don't have much place at home but want a big screen ? Especially for viewing films when no place for a big TV ?
What about firms where a graphic designer can take his computer home and still have his big screen ?
What about sales people going to the customer and make a presentation for many people with only a computer ? (I think it's the main target).
Not for everybody, but why not ? That's only one more niche between the wrist-PDA and the dual-processor with two 21" LCDs.
...and you'll always find one where your favorite license is not legal nor enforceable.
The good side is that the MS'EULA may not be legal everywhere too.
And in many years, people from Jupiter, Aldebaran or Coruscant will claim that the GPL and the EULA from MS are both non-sense according to their legal system ("what's this 'intellectual property' crap??!!" will they ask). If they have one.
(The reverse may be true: the Generous Telepathic License from Pluto is probably not legal on Earth.)
If millionaires are to take commande of the spatial program, and they manage it the same way some of them use to manage their firms:
- Space travel technology will explode. The days of costly mainframe (Atlas, Ariane, Spac Shuttle) are over.
- As a consequence, a new wave of dot-coms will appear : the 'stars-com'. Most of them will even be supernovas: insane burning rate, a very short life, and a sudden crash.
- New shuttles too will explode: designed initially for 10 passagers to Mars, most will finally send 2 people to the Moon, with 20% shuttles lost.
- The Space industry will refuse any safety regulation imposed from the political powers. It would make things much more expensive and stop the growth, they said.
- Some firm will discover that it is cheaper to pay the family of a dead astronaut than to get him back from Pluton.
- Valles Marineris on Mars will become the new Silicon Valley, but nobody will complain that rents are astronomical.
- The bubble will explode when Boo.mars files Chapter 11 after failing of selling Martian water on Earth.
- New spam species appear. By satellite, it can now geo-target you. Everyone suffer from it, and Aldebaran people will ask what are 'penis' and 'viagra'.
- Black Hats can REALLY take control of satellites now. White Hats will shoot them. Finally, geeks and NRA unite.
- The Moon will be transformed as a giant movie theater. The DMFA (Deadly Moon For Astronoms) forbids you to look at the moon without paying fees to the MPAA.
- RMS will create the General Public Property License for newly found planets to avoid Microsoft to buy the whole Universe.
- Patents on space roads will become quickly the n1 cost for space travel, before fuel and spacecraft.
- Main difference with the former Internet bubble: any Microsoft-for-shuttles candidate will literally self-destruct if using its own products.
Slashdot Mirror
>copy of Excel 5.0 obtained from eBay,
Does that mean that Microsoft did refuse to send any free copy of an obsolete software to anybody who may spare them half a billion dollars?!
BTW, some ESA members like Norway or Switzerland do not belong to the European Union. The ESA and "Europe" (as UE) have probably links must the ESA is not the NASA from the UE.
(And the UE is only half or Europe now, and 2/3 next years).
The race to space and to the Moon between Russia and the US had political motivations, but these two countries achieved much more by competition than by any other way. Cooperation, sadly, is not enough to raise enough funds and take risky decisions.
Western European countries had political goals too (avoid dependance on the US), but competition was good there too : AFAIK, Ariane 4 was cheaper and safer than any other launchers for bug satellites (I don't know the market now).
Brazil, India, China, Japan, Israel, have space programs. Motivation are nationalism, security, sometimes science, a need to launch alone military satellites, demonstration of power to scare enemies, but we may all profit of this in the long term (cheap satellites, tourism on the Moon, scientists on Mars...).
I hope Brazil won't stop its program after this failure. If at first you don't succeed...
...So it will be stable and clean when *I* will migrate to 2.6 :-)
For legacy stuff.
For the same reason that people run SQLServer on Windows although other databases exists.
Do you seriously think that such a huge firm would not have already for YEARS deployed in labs the software of what it claims is one of its major competitors ???
Either it's already done, and it's not news, or they go to the next level and try to see if they can port some software (not that I believe we'll see Office or SQLServer on Linux someday, but Balmer or Gates must want to know if it is possible, just in case that had to change their direction 180 once again ), or just want to validate that MS software interoperates well (ie: as poorly as possible) with Linux.
...if a hacker (or a friendly foreign governemen) breaks into this system and changes results to elect Bin Laden as President of the US.
Then, people would see the danger and care.
(I'm dead serious!!)
Even if technically feasible (others here think it is not, but cheap 'hot' supraconductors could appear tomorrow), rich countries have enough problems securing their oil supply, to add another dependency with power! It would be "logical" to put solar panels in Sahara to 'feed' Europe, but then Algeria, Lybia & so on would have the power to 'switch off' whole countries. I suppose the US would be solar-self-sufficient anyway, and Japan and Europe could put panels on the sea.
There is enough solar power, and wind power and geothermy, and tidal power, and nuclear (even oil or coal), even in winter, for each continent to provide its own energy. If only we REALLY wanted.
I hope we'll see such rulings (even not yet definitive) more often. Media conglomerates may have bought half of America and a third of the European Parlement, they are still some people left whose jobs are to be sure that laws have to be in sync with the higest values of the constitution of their country. They is only one Supreme Court in the US, there are one in EACH country of the EU that could be a counter-power to each stupid law.
>Jupiter will get its own IPv6 network, is my >understanding of how networking on a celestial >scale is to work
;-)
OK. Now we're back to NAT, on a planetary scale, after everybody who used to do it in the 1990-2020 years died, and all OS deprecated their NAT-modules. Fine.
Where is the progress ?
When people are connected to the Internet, they usually obtain one public IP, usually not static. If the fridge, the DVD player, the printer, gets its own IP, it will be a private one, NAT-ed, and somewhat protected from the outside.
The IPv6 world won't know NAT, as its goal is somewhat to destroy it. Someone from Australia could connect to my fridge if everything in house becomes connected. It all becomes wireless, you'll even forget that your camera is on the net. Even with a much greater address space, we'll all need to firewall our connections.
I suppose that easy-to-use firewalls will be in every home in a few years. Still, any failure in programming them, any exploit in a well-known brand, could lead to a disaster for people much greater than having its computer hacked: fridge at 20C, heating at 40C, camera becoming a public webcam, TV and DVD giving back what you've seen yesterday, palm giving your agenda to the world...
Fast forward 50 or 100 years... Everyone has Internet-enabled tools, chairs, glasses... whatever, because everything has a RFID inside, because the TPAA (Things producers Ass. of A.) wants to track everything, because some geeks have found a use to a connection between my pen and my fridge, because it is so easy and cheap...
1) BUT this tendency to Internet-enable everything will expand to any file on my computer. A CD has a RFID/IP to connect it to the desk, why not every of my MP3? Why a book and not on e-book ? A computer will needs millions of IP addresses.
2) Worse: we'll finish as virtual beings in the in virtual words (think Ultima Online in 2100). And we'll want everything in this world to have Internet addresses too. I'll ask my little desktop computer to create my own little Matrix, for me alone... and everything there has an address of the IPv6 space (to help me interconnect the real and the virtual world).
And if it's not enough:
3) Cyber beings (a few billions humans, much much much virtual intelligent creatures) find the world rather small for so many entities. Not enough computers on this small planet to compute all the worlds that each entity wants created for itself (and to run the compilation of the 10^15 lines of the brand new Linux 2.80.0). So the Metamegamatrix expands to Jupiter, Saturn and creates a Dyson sphere aroud the Sun, converting every joule of energy into computational power for the simulation.
And in 2203, Slashdot makes headlines on IPv9 with 2048 bits addresses.
>So it should, even in French, still be 'e-mail'
>(with an acute on the e).
No, because foreign words are usually imported with their pronunciation. So the 'e' is spoken the English way like a French 'i', and it blows up the (already shaky) logic between sounds and letters in French. To recover this logic without changing the way it is said would require to write 'i-mail'. (France Telecom tried this with its 'i-Minitel').
I'm French, and I understand both sides:
- Too many foreign words in a language make its internal logic weaker, and messes up the sounds (that should be written 'i-mail' in French). A few words from all over the world make a language healthier, a massive amount from one single source (US) is cultural assimilation.
- This is still far less dangerous than attacking grammar, acronyms madness or putting all ads on French TV in English (yeah, even for Fiat or Alcatel).
- 'Courriel' comes from Canada, where they are much better than French to find 'good' replacement words. A bit too zealous sometimes but this is an everyday battle, like against MS.
- Anyway, finding a translation of word should be done rather early, not 7 years after everybody starts using it!
- In this particular case, I don't mind telling 'email'. In fact, it very often becomes 'mail', which fits perfectly in French (writing, pronunciation, and etymology). And it implies automatically that it goes through the Internet (they didn't try to change this last word BTW).
Article slashdotted, so the following may be inaccurate. But I think that with inkblots:
- I can't so easily write the 'password' into my agenda or my Palm to remember months later.
- Either we will have the same faces or pictures on all computers, or every system will have a different set of pictures that the people must 'learn'. You don't learn a new alphabet each time you have a new account, do you? That would enforce change of password with different accounts, but also make it harder to have a unique password for uncritical things (news websites...).
- No physical remembering of the passwords. (Yes, my muscles remember better some complicated passwords than my brain; yes I'm a geek).
- One more way for MS to protect his monopoly - you don't expect the pictures to be free of rights, do you?
- It takes longer to click on pictures than to type the same passwords each day.
- You won't have to be next to someone to learn its password; the other side of the room will be enough.
- Anyway, the choice of the pictures must be translated into something that the computer understands. Basically, it's a keyword. If 'red flower-pretty girl-blue car' is stored as 'WYZ' in a file somewhere, I don't see much progress.
With this logic:
I own a knife, so I am a murderer. I even own many knives, so I am a mass murderer.
I own a CD burner, so I must be guilty of copyright infringement (no: theft of IP) on 2/3 of the MPAA catalog, and I will have to give them 99% of my earnings during my whole life.
So, as a criminal, I've got nothing else to lose, and I can go shoot their lawyers; they destroyed my life, so I'll shorten theirs. And the world may be a better place after that.
Hey, this is the thinking beside any desesperate terrorism (Palestinians, poor people in corrupted countries, and so on)!
I wish I could say I'm happy not to live in the US, but this insanity comes slowly into Europe too. I'm afraid getting rid of all lawyers would not be enough.
(PS: Message for you little CIA computer reading all the web searching for terrorists: no, I don't intend to kill anybody. Please don't file me as a terrorist for explaining how this insane system will create them. Thanks.)
I wonder on which continent this problem happened. I'm working in a Vaio factory outside the US (I'm not from Sony), does that mean that I should fear for my life every time the telephone rings? And for the colleagues who ARE working with VAIOs? (I am not) :-)
In the EU, we have a common currency (well, 12 countries on 15), but postal and bank charges, and cultural habits are still a problem to international business.
I wanted to buy a Palm Zire. Price is okay in France, where I live, but warranty is 1 year.
In Germany the warranty is 2 years, and it matters for such items (already burnt by a 700 digital camera whose screen died 13 months after buying). It seemed like a good idea; the VAT is even less (16% against 19.6%).
I live near the border, but the local German stores were too expensive. I found some websites, but was deceived: many of them do not accept credit cards, the Germans are not used to it so much. They like direct transfers from account to account ("Überweisung"). On the contrary, French online sellers all accept credit cards for 20 years (*). Direct transfers are very seldom or for firms (salary), and expensive. I would have to pay ~15 to send the money, or wait more than a week!
(And this including the recent EU laws that don't allow banks to charge more for transfers in between EU countries than inside their own country.)
International postage was much much more expensive: 22 from the German sites... againt 0 from a Parisian well-known site. And this is only postage; I don't think the German handler would have had to fill much paperwork.
So postage cost+bank cost+bank delay+shipping delay win on warranty+small win on VAT. I've bought online from Paris.
And I'm fluent in German. Language barrier is another big problem for many people (even English for much Frenchies).
So our friend from Hungary may have problems too, even when its country will enter the European Union next year. (Gargl, 10 new countries at a time, it will be a nice mess...)
(*) Yeah, before the Net. Minitel, it was called.
I'm French, in France. Not exactly 3rd world with massive insecurity, we have smart cards and online banking for 15 years.
/. I give my Eurocard/Mastercard (accepted by Amazon FR,UK & US), and I receive a mail that this is refused, as the risk factor is too high!
/. perhaps thought that France and US would be at war 2 weeks later? :-) .cc domain (Coco Islands, Australian territory) raised a trigger in the database.
A few months ago, I decided to subscribe to
It was during the Irak crisis, so
Or, more probably my address in a
Anyway, I complained by mail. No answer, but it succeeded when I tried again a few weeks later.
OK, it's cheaper than in France or Germany. Can you give us some numbers on the average income? I suppose wages are lower than in Western Europe.
My favorite geek newspaper is C't (If you speak German, this must be the best "Computer technik" newspaper in Europe).
If I must take a shot of each potentially interesting page, that would be 200 pages... every two weeks... There are not so much ads in it.
Better pay the 3 euros and go home with it!
The 42" laptop, which a screen which unfolds when opening the case. Perfect for people living all week long in hotels and want films, and geeks who have never enough place on their screen and never enough different desktops.
Can't wait to see it...
OK, it is huge. OK, it has a small battery life.
But does everybody need a small and totally cordless laptop ?
What about people who travel much but need the computer only on a desk with electrivity ? And want to see films ?
What about people who don't have much place at home but want a big screen ? Especially for viewing films when no place for a big TV ?
What about firms where a graphic designer can take his computer home and still have his big screen ?
What about sales people going to the customer and make a presentation for many people with only a computer ? (I think it's the main target).
Not for everybody, but why not ? That's only one more niche between the wrist-PDA and the dual-processor with two 21" LCDs.
...and you'll always find one where your favorite license is not legal nor enforceable.
The good side is that the MS'EULA may not be legal everywhere too.
And in many years, people from Jupiter, Aldebaran or Coruscant will claim that the GPL and the EULA from MS are both non-sense according to their legal system ("what's this 'intellectual property' crap??!!" will they ask). If they have one.
(The reverse may be true: the Generous Telepathic License from Pluto is probably not legal on Earth.)
If millionaires are to take commande of the spatial program, and they manage it the same way some of them use to manage their firms:
- Space travel technology will explode. The days of costly mainframe (Atlas, Ariane, Spac Shuttle) are over.
- As a consequence, a new wave of dot-coms will appear : the 'stars-com'. Most of them will even be supernovas: insane burning rate, a very short life, and a sudden crash.
- New shuttles too will explode: designed initially for 10 passagers to Mars, most will finally send 2 people to the Moon, with 20% shuttles lost.
- The Space industry will refuse any safety regulation imposed from the political powers. It would make things much more expensive and stop the growth, they said.
- Some firm will discover that it is cheaper to pay the family of a dead astronaut than to get him back from Pluton.
- Valles Marineris on Mars will become the new Silicon Valley, but nobody will complain that rents are astronomical.
- The bubble will explode when Boo.mars files Chapter 11 after failing of selling Martian water on Earth.
- New spam species appear. By satellite, it can now geo-target you. Everyone suffer from it, and Aldebaran people will ask what are 'penis' and 'viagra'.
- Black Hats can REALLY take control of satellites now. White Hats will shoot them. Finally, geeks and NRA unite.
- The Moon will be transformed as a giant movie theater. The DMFA (Deadly Moon For Astronoms) forbids you to look at the moon without paying fees to the MPAA.
- RMS will create the General Public Property License for newly found planets to avoid Microsoft to buy the whole Universe.
- Patents on space roads will become quickly the n1 cost for space travel, before fuel and spacecraft.
- Main difference with the former Internet bubble: any Microsoft-for-shuttles candidate will literally self-destruct if using its own products.