It’s so much more pleasant reading someone who knows what the fuck they are writing about reference ISPs, infrastructure, and bandwidth.

Cringely also said the same thing I have all along, that it’s just a matter of turning up a few more ports on a router somewhere and doing a crossconnect and this whole “problem” would be solved. In most cases, it would cost literally a few hundred dollars (network engineer time + $50 fiber cable + NOC crossconnect fee).

Those who deride the space program as useless and unnecessary seem not to realize that if the technologies and experience developed there allow it to save even one major city from an asteroid strike, it will have paid off a million times over.

Never mind that if it one day allows us to somehow divert a planet-killer asteroid, it will have paid off, well, for everything.

Anyway, some things humans should do just because they are awesome and amazing.

Unfortunately, I’ve found those who oppose space programs and the like are not nearly as practical as they imagine themselves to be. Practicality also involves resilience, and knowing that for even the smartest person not all ends can be seen.