Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show

[CosmicRay <cr@cosmicray.co.uk>]

On 19 Jul 2010, at 05:10, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> 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.

I still say L1 is more attractive for at least the first station at only 1.5 million km from Earth.  The lag would be *much* less, but nobody'll be playing OnLive anytime soon.

Local caching for fairly static resources like Wikipedia would be easy to implement (and encourage more jbo. contributors).

> 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?

Open bodies of water should feature imo, as reservoirs, leisure destinations, sports facilities, and food farming (not necessarily all at the same time).

kozmikreis

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