From lojban+bncCICntNPQBRCUqo_iBBoEkvRq4A@googlegroups.com Sun Jul 18 21:31:34 2010 Received: from mail-yw0-f61.google.com ([209.85.213.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Oai0o-0005MU-1m; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:31:34 -0700 Received: by ywo7 with SMTP id 7sf1919954ywo.16 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:31:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:mime-version :received:received:date:in-reply-to:x-ip:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help :list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=DnfRCJPAeRBWbgKHyt6XbNSyScCkkr6BmmNDYaokO+g=; b=A7EywkAgJGAOOI4tKtxxRFkzsLt7UGFJHI2TqZQJ3hvwVXlVzTj6JQyOD5mRUIEd2m Axa1h+5xJVmZTcax8t0LdYI6vmICq7ZJ9KQjVbaAhJX0kUXNyU9jl5xT9ZrMLwaVxsTO oVxTphztqSNyHFHIDlME1GSb6QHytZo75OOx0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:x-ip:references :user-agent:x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to :x-original-sender:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id :list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type; b=hPUo9k8CMsrsVZ2gYN1z4jPf0vIF5EpF7ZM5jC3u0Ih4IVbvnv2fJf0SB+nij7dBAL S4gzl+qRUieSlJQ8LNcBs//BDLnf5loaKNmtIVgLl0lggKSdjFfSuS0AaQnYPQ2fn8IA y11OF/y+GHqQiW9OrNOubFS7aD6zBn/0M6JMc= Received: by 10.90.52.1 with SMTP id z1mr846116agz.51.1279513876464; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:31:16 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.90.7.35 with SMTP id 35ls317326agg.3.p; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:31:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.70.18 with SMTP id s18mr838025aga.19.1279513874169; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by l25g2000prn.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:31:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201007190010.57987.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-IP: 173.196.20.139 References: <3c4ace6b-a18e-4306-a2b1-8cef523e20f3@u36g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <0ea116b6-80d3-498e-a6c8-80377826906f@z34g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <201007190010.57987.phma@phma.optus.nu> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <17f7fec8-acb3-4215-af99-9e5438029736@l25g2000prn.googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show From: Lindar To: lojban X-Original-Sender: lindarthebard@yahoo.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > What about foreign languages? Is home schooling allowed? Or can a group of > parents (one can teach math, one Lojban, one geography, etc.) band together > to form a school? Uhhh... dunno. Home schooling probably works, groups of parents would need approval/certification. > It should be easy to wire the whole town for Internet. Communicating with > Earth, though, presents a problem. The station is 150 Gm from Earth (it's at > the Sun-Earth L4 or L5 point, right?), so it takes 500 seconds to send a > message to Earth, and 500 seconds for the reply to come back. Well, shit. Why is it out that far? Also, wouldn't it hit the orbital commsats instead of hitting geofixed towers? Perhaps some orbital cache system that allows faster access, but the node itself must update for the ONC to get what Terra has? Follow? > This means just > sending an email (assuming the server doesn't send any command until it has > received the reply to the previous one) takes 108 minutes! (not counting > tearing down the connection) If you're in the space station, browsing a site > on the Earth, and your browser keeps the connection open, you click a link, > and almost 17 minutes later the page comes up. There are at least three Earth > stations for communicating with the space station. Yeah, I don't know what to do about that. Come up with something? > With only 32 km, it would be difficult in the ag tube to grow both bananas and > apples. If there's more than one ag tube (as there may be more than one town > tube), that solves that problem. Will there also be lakes for growing fish > and seaweed? Yes, there will be bodies of water in the living tube. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.