Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 18 July 2010 15:50:29 Lindar wrote:
> I think it's a very free-form education system. One must take
> compulsory education subjects up to age 9 in a one-hour-one-subject
> class system (maths, lojban, basic social sciences/anthropology/
> geography -ish class, computers, basic science (with emphasis on the
> differences between artificial and natural gravity). After that point,
> one should have three hours of one subject two days a week, and a
> vocational/interest class the same. M - 3 hours Maths, 3 hours
> Introduction to Orbital Physics, T - 3 hours Lojban, 3 hours
> Introduction to Programming and Programming Concepts, W - 3 hours
> World Anthropology, 3 hours Music Theory

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?

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. 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.

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?

Pierre
-- 
Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.

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