OLPC runs at below 2W all included, even below 1W in ebook reading mode, Netbooks need at least 20W all included.

We've had ISS parts in Space for more than decades and they work fine. We know exactly how to build the spaceships right now. Read up on marssociaety.org for detailed plans of how to do it.

And the Human to Mars project is going to be the most interesting thing to watch on TV. You must be insane if you really think such a show of the worlds first attempt at sending Humans on another planet isn't going to be the most interesting thing for everyone worldwide to tune into at any time of the day. Even if it takes then 6 months to go there, 1.5 years on Mars and 6 months back. Big Brother and Singing competitions and other reality shows on TV takes months at the time and are billions of times less interesting to watch.

Exactly, if you want to discover fossils or signs of previous life on Mars, if you want to find water and other minerals, ONLY Humans on Mars can find it and prove it.

Try finding anything on earth with a bunch of automated robots, it's impossible. A robot can't even drive a car down a road without crashing it much less even taking out the rubbish. How do you expect to discover anything close to what Humans can using robots and artificial intelligence (since there is a 10+ minute light distance delay).

Also the Humans to Mars program is going to cost 5 times cheaper then the Apollo mission at least. Cause we already have most of the technology right now. Only thing needed is to prepare a heavy lift booster in collaboration with the Russians, who already have one that is nearly available which they used not too long ago.

But the rovers were super cheap. $500 million only. A Human Mission to Mars is about $30 billion. That's 50 times cheaper then the Financial bail-out. It's about the same price as supposedly "saving" the big auto-makers. It's 50 times cheaper then the War in Iraq.

We cannot afford not to send Humans on Mars.

NASA can send Humans to Mars right now, or start working on it now with full NASA manned budget on that instead of ISS and the Space Shuttle, and we could have the first Humans on Mars within 4 years from now. It will cost less than $30 billion to send 24 astronauts on 4 spaceships to Mars, with 4 earth-return spaceships sent there at the same time for the trip home. 6 months travel to go, 1 and a half years spent on Mars and 6 months for the return trip. It'd be a 2.5 year at least live Mars reality show, in HDTV cause more bandwidth will be available using a bunch of faster satellite links, just that is worth many billions in advertising revenues.

Anyone who doesn't agree with me is a moron.