"Juergen Nieveler" <juergen.nieveler.nospam@arcor.de> wrote in message
news:Xns9911D819E2641juergennieveler@nieveler.org. ..
> "AirRaid" <airraid.mach2.5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Iris is to the future of satellite-based communications what Arpanet
>> was to the creation of the internet in the 1960s," said Don Brown, of
>> Intelsat General, one of the companies who will build the platform.
>
> Uh... somebody may correct me, but one of the first extensions of the
> original 4-host Arpanet was trying to build a satelite link to the UK -
> and two-way Internet connections via Satellite are becoming cheap by
> now (around 50 Euros per month for 1Mb/128k) - so what exactly is NEWS
> about that?
>
> Juergen Nieveler
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> "Eating uranium makes me feel funny", said Tom glowingly

Hmm. Yes, my first thought was this article is twenty years old.