Once the first 100 (1,000, 10,000, more?) people settle on Mars, they will be nearly cut off from the Information Age. That will be a real downer. Of course they will have local, Mars, communication but no chatting with Earth. Text email only? Mars Google to Earth won't work very well and participating in NSF discussions will be very awkward.What can be done to improve the situation?Bring data on media to Mars for installation on the local Mars-net will work for archive data but how current can it be kept? What will the Mars-net look like, how will it be kept current how will a Scientist do data searches? Will the colonists just forget about surfing the Earth Internet?Other problems/solutions?
One method of accessing those types of websites will be working with someone on Earth. You tell them what you are looking for and they try to not just provide better results than a search engine does, but to follow the links and anticipate which ones you will find useful, and where you will go deeper into a site (or follow links), so that they can build a small cache of valuable information in a much shorter time for you.
You don't search the whole web when you do a google search, you're sending a request to the nearest Google data center which sends back the result. For a million person colony, Google would just have a few servers at Mars.
Oh well, sucks we wont get internet porn on mars. I guess our martian astronauts will just have to bring playboys like the Apollo astronauts did!
Quote from: bilbo on 08/19/2014 09:30 pmOh well, sucks we wont get internet porn on mars. I guess our martian astronauts will just have to bring playboys like the Apollo astronauts did!For a two year trip? They'll be improvising some alternatives on Mars in no time. What do they have to work with? If Home Office is breathing down their necks, they'll have to go all the way back to cave art and fertility statuettes :p
Quote from: high road on 08/20/2014 09:59 amQuote from: bilbo on 08/19/2014 09:30 pmOh well, sucks we wont get internet porn on mars. I guess our martian astronauts will just have to bring playboys like the Apollo astronauts did!For a two year trip? They'll be improvising some alternatives on Mars in no time. What do they have to work with? If Home Office is breathing down their necks, they'll have to go all the way back to cave art and fertility statuettes :pHow about women? It is going to be a Colony after all.