<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6763855#msg6763855">Quote from: blakel on 15-08-2012, 18:28:38</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I was actually under the impression that to get anything from Earth you would have to get it from the communication arrays, being that the wireless that you have isn't strong enough to reach across 150 million kilometers.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yes, you would have to access Earth's internet markets the sae way we use to do it before I-phones and I-Pads... just like you had to do at Starbucks with your old laptop. Acess wouldn't be so much a matter of calling Uhura and saying, "I want to send a message to Uncle Gaygax on Maxima III as it would probably be  a matter of accessing the constant data flow between mars and Earth (except for during blackouts) and expecting a little lag in response.