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The Digital Mars Blog is home to my thoughts and comments about digital images of Mars created from data returned by various missions to Mars.

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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Save the Internet

Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has posted on his blog an interesting article about the current debate over net neutrality (see http://www.freepress.net/news/16193

After some additional reading on the subject my guess is that it is probably in the consumer's best interest to support the concept of net neutrality.

For more information visit the Save the Internet web site.

They also have a petition that you can sign.

Jim.


Save the Net Now

CBS News Shows Chinese Landing on Wrong Moon

Chinese Moon Mission to Dione

Well it looks like CBS News has done it again. First it was exploding trucks. Then it was faked documents. Now the CBS News web site has Chinese astronauts landing on Saturn's moon Dione.

Here is a link to the story in question:
China Plans To Land On Moon By 2024

So while the article is actually about a planned manned Chinese mission to the Earth's Moon, the illustration used is an image of the Saturn moon Dione.