I live in a town with a pop of about 20,000. My town is not that far away from major cities (half an hour by road). I have a fiber line that runs through my town. Yet my only options for broadand are Road Runner (for upwards of $55/mo) or Earthlink satilite (more $, less bandwith). If the gov't can get Verison to open up fiber lines, then I'm all for it! Perhapse then we can get some competition...
People proof? Why not idiot proof? How about those people who will just set out to find a way to screw it up? Don't think they exist? read the page...
Also, what do you do when you scan a page and it's not a match?
I agree with the fact that a Mars base would be nice, however, I think many people fail to realize just how far away mars is. It would take months to reach. Therefor, it would not be a good backup to the ISS.
Furthermore, Maned space craft are a key tool in R&D in outer space. Without them our lab experaments would be extremely limited in capacity. While this is true, I doubt a shuttle would make it to Mars, much less do anything productive once it was there. One think I really don't understand, though, is how NASA (or GW) plans to get people to Mars if they are cutting NASA's budget.
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I live in a town with a pop of about 20,000. My town is not that far away from major cities (half an hour by road). I have a fiber line that runs through my town. Yet my only options for broadand are Road Runner (for upwards of $55/mo) or Earthlink satilite (more $, less bandwith). If the gov't can get Verison to open up fiber lines, then I'm all for it! Perhapse then we can get some competition...
Just remember the policy: If at first success is not obtained, redifine success.
People proof? Why not idiot proof? How about those people who will just set out to find a way to screw it up? Don't think they exist? read the page...
Also, what do you do when you scan a page and it's not a match?
I agree with the fact that a Mars base would be nice, however, I think many people fail to realize just how far away mars is. It would take months to reach. Therefor, it would not be a good backup to the ISS.
Furthermore, Maned space craft are a key tool in R&D in outer space. Without them our lab experaments would be extremely limited in capacity. While this is true, I doubt a shuttle would make it to Mars, much less do anything productive once it was there. One think I really don't understand, though, is how NASA (or GW) plans to get people to Mars if they are cutting NASA's budget.