I weep for our journalists. I heard a radio program today where they were suggesting that it would be nice for the first inhabitants of Mars to have a good broadband connection to Earth. I really hope it was some very dry, subtle joke that I didn't exactly get. If they were serious, they better figure out how bad the latency might be. Yeesh. In fairness, they weren't even science journalists, and it wasn't a call in show, so no one tore them a new one.