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Obama just signed the order. NASA people and presumably other technical people were involved in the decision.

It does seem like something of an interesting and worthwhile challenge to conduct a project like this while performance is being lifted ever higher in step with Moore's law, or, if it is not sustained, whatever curve follows it.

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More than likely. I am just trying to get them to think outside of the specialized box they are stuck in.

With the wide spread of fiber cable(faster internet speeds), I see it being very do-able form of computing in the near to soon future. We might as well help push the Moore's law mentality a bit further.