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I have just read some interesting articles and I would like to share some of it's highlights...amazing but true facts...no bulling around like some casinos and some customer support teams do, hehehe. No such thing as "money on the way..." here, just modern technology on its way into the future. How many of you had seen the live or delayed telecast of Astronaut Neil Armstrong making his 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind' historical landing on the moon? That was way back in July 1969, a time when my parent's TV was still in black and white! So I only saw Neil in shades of grey and white, with his white spacesuit gleaming as he bounces on the surface of the moon. Aaah...that was interesting indeed. The interesting fact about that landing on the moon was even unbelievable. Did you know that for that first landing on the moon, the space capsule carried an onboard computer that was no more complicated than a simple modern-day calculator?!!! But of course, at that time, whoever has even heard of computers! Even Nintendo games have not emerged yet...I think, hahaha. So, after landing on the moon, mankind's next step is now to land on Mars...yes, the red planet Mars, to make yet another giant leap for mankind...targeted to happen around the year 2030...but this time around, even one billion 'calculators' just cannot do the same kind of work one 'calculator' did for landing on the moon!!! 'Calculator' in this sense refers to the state of computer technology. That simply blows my mind away! Why isn't that possible? Why is landing on Mars so much more different than landing on the moon? Firstly, Mars is so far away from earth that communications would require 20-light-minutes to reach! That is the equivalent of 20 minutes at the speed of light! Communications travelling within laser beams would take 20 minutes to reach the space capsule...and that would be totally unacceptable...because any response needed to be taken upon reaching Mars' atmosphere needs instant answers to unknown circumstances! That's really mind boggling! So...what kind of an onboard computer should the space capsule be carrying? The space and computers experts have this to say..."it needs to be the size of a huge building, connected directly to a nuclear power plant for its power supply!" Ooooh my god! Secondly, whatever info that NASA has about Mars is chicken feed, so to speak. The Rover may have sent back billions and trillions of info bytes about Mars, but all that is really chicken feed. Nothing much is known about being in the space above the planet, critical to know before any safe landing can be attempted, and to make it back to Earth...so everything is really really daunting! HP has recently announced its latest computer...a real innovation...purely for this Mars project...a Super Intelligent Computer that works on Memory (Memory Driven) instead of the usual storage+memory current technology. It currently has 160 Terabytes (TB) of memory...that's 40,000x more than the current 4GB RAM of modern day computers! But all that 160 Terabytes is still only a small fraction of what is needed! So HP plans to reach 4096 Yottabytes (YT) of memory before it can even be considered as 'sufficient' for that Mars landing! Another mind boggling fact! 4096 Yottabytes is equivalent to just over 1 billion times more than today's 4GB memory!!! Can HP actually achieve this incredible feat in just 13 years from now? It has to! Because the space program cannot stop. It won't stop. Well...so now you know the incredible tasks those space people are facing before a manned trip to Mars can be possible. I know an easier way, but perhaps quite an impossible way, of getting all those critical info that they need, and I'm sure they know it too...but everyone of you will probably laugh at me if I tell you the way! Hahahahahaha.