From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend")
Subject: Re: Virtual Mars
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.035053.1137@lavaca.uh.edu>
Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics
05@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 1991 03:50:53 GMT

In article <14505@milton.u.washington.edu> frerichs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David J Fr
erichs) writes:
>A problem remains with the virtual exploration of Mars...
>The speed of light.  No robotic exploration can be truly interactive at that

Pah.  Information can travel faster than light.  Just a matter of
figuring out how to implement it.  It's a hardware problem. :-)

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Motorola skates on Intel's head!

[Moderator's Note:  Are we about done with virtual Mars?  On to Jupiter!]