The larger problem is not the countless cells containing DNA that you shed on a daily basis. If you leave evidence of your crime behind, that's your problem.
That said, collection of your DNA before hand, to have it on file for comparison just in case you commit a crime, is a breach of privacy. It's painful to imagine a world where one of the first things done when someone is born is to collect DNA for comparison throughout the baby's life.
Around 1990-92 (I was 10-12) I would walk after school to the mall where my mom worked. Waiting for her shift to end, I'd go to the nearby Radio Shack in the mall; where I developing a rapport with the girl on shift. One day she had Prince of Persian running on a Tandy 1000, and from that day on, for a few hours each day, she let me play Prince of Persia in the store. I played the whole game there, never having purchased it.
Then I came across this recently and it brought back a lot of memories https://archive.org/details/ms... (Prince of Persia - DOS Box)
Stargate was the first thing that came to mind in the prior story regarding SpaceX's Satellite Internet; which described the ultimate goal of an internet connection to Mars. Perhaps it would look something like this:
Then again, this bridge was between two galaxies, not two planets within the same solar system and an obstruction (the sun) to contend with once a year.
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Actually it's an hour earlier in the summer; not later. We just lost an hour. What is 9am now would have been 8am had we not meddled with the clocks.
The larger problem is not the countless cells containing DNA that you shed on a daily basis. If you leave evidence of your crime behind, that's your problem.
That said, collection of your DNA before hand, to have it on file for comparison just in case you commit a crime, is a breach of privacy. It's painful to imagine a world where one of the first things done when someone is born is to collect DNA for comparison throughout the baby's life.
Around 1990-92 (I was 10-12) I would walk after school to the mall where my mom worked. Waiting for her shift to end, I'd go to the nearby Radio Shack in the mall; where I developing a rapport with the girl on shift. One day she had Prince of Persian running on a Tandy 1000, and from that day on, for a few hours each day, she let me play Prince of Persia in the store. I played the whole game there, never having purchased it.
Then I came across this recently and it brought back a lot of memories https://archive.org/details/ms... (Prince of Persia - DOS Box)
Stargate was the first thing that came to mind in the prior story regarding SpaceX's Satellite Internet; which described the ultimate goal of an internet connection to Mars. Perhaps it would look something like this:
McKay/Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge
Then again, this bridge was between two galaxies, not two planets within the same solar system and an obstruction (the sun) to contend with once a year.