I read through just about every comment here and I'm utterly shocked that I haven't seen somebody with my same point of view......if you're so incredibly paranoid about micromanging what your residents do in the privacy of their own home, why not just say that they can only have WIRED networks?
Have we seriously already forgotten about the wired router? My wired network is far harder to get into that even the strongest encrypted wireless network.
"In some ways it'd be a good test to have a biosphere at the bottom of the ocean. You'd have the same combination of a harsh external environment and pressure differential (albeit reversed) as you would in space."
I agree that underwater biospheres would be a great idea, but for entirely different reasons. Any atmospheric leaks would be made apparent quickly. However, if we can't make a biosphere work on the surface, there's no reason to put one in the ocean, watch it flood and lose all of the valuable scientific equipment inside. That's just haphazard.
We wouldn't be able to take any lessons learned about the structural engineering from an underwater biosphere. By the time you hit 100 feet below the surface, you've already gone to 4 atmospheres of pressure. With the Mariana Trench being some 36,000 feet deep, it'd be almost virtually impossible.
The opposite would occur on the moon. Whereas the pressure inside would be 1 atmosphere and the ambient pressure would be approximately zero, I don't believe structural engineering for the pressure differential would be that difficult. For instantce, airliners can withstand the atmosphere at 35,000-40,000 feet while the cabin is presssurized to 8,000 feet.
We should be more concerned with solar wind, protection from radiation, moon dust, etc.
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I read through just about every comment here and I'm utterly shocked that I haven't seen somebody with my same point of view... ...if you're so incredibly paranoid about micromanging what your residents do in the privacy of their own home, why not just say that they can only have WIRED networks?
Have we seriously already forgotten about the wired router? My wired network is far harder to get into that even the strongest encrypted wireless network.
"In some ways it'd be a good test to have a biosphere at the bottom of the ocean. You'd have the same combination of a harsh external environment and pressure differential (albeit reversed) as you would in space." I agree that underwater biospheres would be a great idea, but for entirely different reasons. Any atmospheric leaks would be made apparent quickly. However, if we can't make a biosphere work on the surface, there's no reason to put one in the ocean, watch it flood and lose all of the valuable scientific equipment inside. That's just haphazard. We wouldn't be able to take any lessons learned about the structural engineering from an underwater biosphere. By the time you hit 100 feet below the surface, you've already gone to 4 atmospheres of pressure. With the Mariana Trench being some 36,000 feet deep, it'd be almost virtually impossible. The opposite would occur on the moon. Whereas the pressure inside would be 1 atmosphere and the ambient pressure would be approximately zero, I don't believe structural engineering for the pressure differential would be that difficult. For instantce, airliners can withstand the atmosphere at 35,000-40,000 feet while the cabin is presssurized to 8,000 feet. We should be more concerned with solar wind, protection from radiation, moon dust, etc.