If it's called Ruby on Rails, and this company is EngineYard, are they going to make program trains?!

I think it would also cause local geological disturbances (read: earthquakes etc) and is done too much, possibly affect plate tectonics as a whole.

should be the you-must-construct-additional-pylons department...

So what TFA says is that electric trains are only green if the power is generated by non-fossil fuels. Take for example the Portland MAX, whose power is generated by wind farms. (at least they pay for their power to be generated by a wind farm.) This makes the MAX WAAAY green.

i take it nobody got the 2001 reference...pity.

Aren't there enough satellites up that we wouldn't need undersea cables anyway?

Thats it, I'm building a Faraday cage around my house. Try sniffing my emissions through THAT. Try hacking my wifi through THAT.

If we can build a large ship in orbit, why not use it to run a sort of shuttle path to Mars? This ship would never break orbit, and be a true Star Trek-style ship. Better yet, build Two of these things, and make them huge. Star Trek TOS Enterprise size...Build the first, use orbital lifts to supply it. First trip will be an infrastructure trip. Bring along a skeleton crew to man the place, as well as a vehicle capable of shuttling to Mars orbit and back for them. Would rendezvous with the Interplanetary Shuttle. While the first ship is on its way to Mars, build your second ship. Load it with Oxy tanks and fuel and whatever supplies they need. Send it on its 17 month voyage as the first is leaving on its way back. (8 there plus 1/2 there plus 8 back) After 5 or 6 of these trips we have solved all of our problems. Need to get back home? take the interplanetary shuttle. Want to get to mars? Take the interplanetary shuttle. we need shit shipped from one place to the other? Take the Shuttle!!