1994-02-08 - Re: Atlantis Project/Oceania

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: nate@vis.colostate.edu (CVL staff member Nate Sammons)
Message Hash: 68f4f762685a1caf43170937914da359fc620186076b9aec69fdc8bd87efa4f8
Message ID: <199402081429.JAA09219@snark>
Reply To: <9402080248.AA14992@vangogh.VIS.ColoState.EDU>
UTC Datetime: 1994-02-08 14:30:47 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 06:30:47 PST

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 06:30:47 PST
To: nate@vis.colostate.edu (CVL staff member Nate Sammons)
Subject: Re: Atlantis Project/Oceania
In-Reply-To: <9402080248.AA14992@vangogh.VIS.ColoState.EDU>
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CVL staff member Nate Sammons says:
> writes Matthew J Ghio:
> >
> >profitable venture, but getting a high bandwidth net connection in the
> >middle of the ocean would increase startup costs.  Telecom, electricity,
> 
> Well, a satellite dish can transfer around 100MB (megaBytes, not bits)
> per second.  I'm not too sure how much this kind of link costs, but I
> would also assume that the Oceania people aren't going to go without a 
> network conection to start.

Perhaps the appropriate time to worry about Oceania's network
connection would be when Oceania's builders have the $ 1 Billion they
need instead of begging for $20 or $30k for models. In any case, this
is NOT appropriate stuff for cypherpunks.

Perry

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• 1994-02-08 (Mon, 7 Feb 94 16:40:41 PST) - Re: Atlantis Project/Oceania - wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)
  • 1994-02-08 (Mon, 7 Feb 94 17:50:40 PST) - Re: Atlantis Project/Oceania - Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
    • 1994-02-08 (Mon, 7 Feb 94 18:56:32 PST) - Re: Atlantis Project/Oceania - nate@VIS.ColoState.EDU (CVL staff member Nate Sammons)
      • 1994-02-08 (Mon, 7 Feb 94 19:16:32 PST) - Re: Atlantis Project/Oceania - Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
      • 1994-02-08 (Mon, 7 Feb 94 21:56:33 PST) - Re: Atlantis Project/Oceania - Oliver Seiler <oseiler@unixg.ubc.ca>
      • 1994-02-08 (Tue, 8 Feb 94 06:30:47 PST) - Re: Atlantis Project/Oceania - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
    • 1994-02-08 (Mon, 7 Feb 94 19:06:32 PST) - Re: Atlantis Project/Oceania - Chris Knight <cknight@crl.com>