M51

beavith wrote:

was it your allegorical comparison between motor cars and horses in
that the first auto users had all kinds of restrictions placed on
them? true enough. however, once the population of car users
exceeded critical mass, horses were kept off the roads.

But there are still riding and walking trails. And although there are
plenty of vehicles that can do 300 kph, or can carry tonnes of cargo
at 120 kph, they're not allowed on residential streets. Just because
something *can* be done doesn't mean that it *must* be done,
everywhere possible.

--Odysseus

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 02:14:46 GMT, Odysseus
wrote:

beavith wrote:

was it your allegorical comparison between motor cars and horses in
that the first auto users had all kinds of restrictions placed on
them? true enough. however, once the population of car users
exceeded critical mass, horses were kept off the roads.

But there are still riding and walking trails. And although there are
plenty of vehicles that can do 300 kph, or can carry tonnes of cargo
at 120 kph, they're not allowed on residential streets. Just because
something *can* be done doesn't mean that it *must* be done,
everywhere possible.

--Odysseus

i think we are splitting hairs here. riding and walking trails are
vastly lower in number than high speed roads, as their importance has
diminsihed over the years.
the usenet "residential areas" can be as big or small as we want.
i suppose i could also say that the more broadband users "pushing"
will drag the rest of the dialup community, over time, to some
semblance of broadband/hispeed, in the end. of course, this won't
happen overnite.
maybe this M51 picture is one of the first moves in that direction...