Part 4: The Solar Internet

How will the people on Mars get the internet from Earth or send their data back to Earth in a timely manor? It takes 45 Seconds for a signal to go from Mars to Earth and another 45 seconds to go back to Mars. Round trip, we are talking about 1 Minute 30 Seconds. Sending signals the way they do on the internet today will not work. Why tell me this information? Was I handed over to the wrong person thinking I was someone else?



I am not sure if they wanted me to know about this internet. They will be able to send a signal with more data on it back and forth, speeding up the communications between planets. They will expand this internet to all of the planets in the solar system over time. This is not "Pie in the Sky." They are constructing this system now.

Going to Mars and working on the Computer Software Systems is what 5 year old David Tulloch is thinking about. 

Someone has to maintain the communications systems around the world as well as the weather systems. That means jobs for the people who know that this exist!      

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/comm_delay_assessment

Nine Real NASA Technologies in 'The Martian'

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I can remember in my preteen years, some of my neighbors told me that if God wanted man to fly he would have given him wings. Many of my friends did not want to go into the science fields because the Steel Mills will always be there and the man wanted us to go into these new things that do not pay any money.   

Today our Steel Mills are in China and everything we do and produce is High Tech. Because of this, many of the jobs that we have calls for using High Tech Education. 

David Tulloch learned to use his mother's cell phone while he was being breast fed at 1 years old. While being breast fed, he learned her password, how to get into the picture part of the phone, as well as how to call 911 and alert me as well. Nothing was wrong that he had to call 911 but he knew how to do it so he did it.  As he got older, he learned more about technology. 

At David's age, 5 years old, he knows that he has to do something to make a living 15 years from now. He talks about what he wants to do no matter if I think he will change later or not. I still give him information and encourage him to "go for it."  

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NASA  Satellite Dissect Typhoon  Dujuan Affecting Taiwan

 http://gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html

NASA: Discover Earth Science Data Services

You may not believe in climate change or you may. However, the Earth is changing for one reason or another. We know that Egypt 5 Thousand years ago was a grassland, before that it was a forest. We know that other things have changed since 1812. The Battle Fields in New Orleans was above water. Now it is not. Many islands in the Pacific was above water. Now they are not. Does it matter if the climate changed? No, what matters is something has changed. People's lives are being affected. What are we as Humans going to do about it? 

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/index.html

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