But Google makes money from ads, and this sounds like what the Adblock extension already does. Does anyone think they got this patent is so they can remove that extension for violating it?

It's not just the speed. Maybe I should have said 16 megabytes *each* second. We will get 1.4 TB of data every day from this thing. (I'm on a satellite connection, so I have that latency. Believe me, it does suck.)

A "prodigious rush" is 16 megabytes per second! Now we know.

I recommend the development version (1.7.x). It's a definite improvement, and I haven't seen a bug in a while. They have hit feature freeze with the current 1.7.6, so I expect 1.8 by the end of the year. (I'm a contributer too. I drew or animated a couple units, and made a whole adventure campaign. That part is a lot of fun, too!)

That system is no longer there, and it didn't use a lens either: it used two mirrors. All the instruments currently on board were built after the flaw was known, so they correct for it internally.