Intro

Hello! My name is Nate and I am currently communicating to you on an air-plane in Africa (Very fun vacation, I will update you :). You know? Its crazy how things like this work. I am flying thousands of feet above our home planet and yet, I am right here, on your page.

For the better part of a year now, I have known what I want to do when I grow up. I want to bring the culture of my home land, the internet, to mars. This is quite obviously a tremendous task, so I have to think. What is the best way. Before I present my ideas, I want you to know that I am no expert, but I am serious. I am currently studying to get my CCENT this summer. I do not come from wealth, but I hope to find investors. Here are a few thoughts of mine. I think that the purpose of this post is to get constructive criticism and get new ideas.

Lastly I would like to say I am a freedom fighter. I have seen what is right and what is wrong with our internet today. Many of the things that we do can be eliminated completely if we start over. I will get into the specifics a bit more later, but I want to fix the internet while I am at it.

Problems

I would like to be honest. There are lots of problems that I may face on my way. Here are just a few.

• Money.
  I expect Money will be a large problem. As I have said I do not come from wealth. Satellites getting cheaper, but I am afraid it's not cheap enough. The real goal to eliminate high cost would be a solid implementation. I will get into a few of my ideas on exactly how I believe we could implement this down below, but a good implementation could save billions. I have a solid idea I think on how I might fix this, but i will get into it later in the post.
• Lawyers
  Laws laws laws. More laws. Laws. The earthian ISP's have a pretty good grip on governments world wide. I expect that it will take a lot of greasy palms to set up a legitimate practice. As a plus side though, I am pretty sure many of the laws restricting new ISPs from popping up on earth wouldn't apply on Mars. A whole new set of laws apply up there. I think. I am sure the ISPs will do as much as they can to lock it up before its too late. Being honest this is one of the fields I will need the most help setting up. I know almost nothing of the laws. I expect that beating them will come along with challenge number one, money.
• Infrastructure
  Infrastructure in general is my main concern. Who will build the space roads as it were. The actual fiber optic on the red planet could be tricky. We don't have a super solid map of the underground of mars. It may be impossible to lay wire there. We will find a way however. Another aspect is getting the internet to mars which brings my third point.
• Delay
  At light speed, which is optimistic, information would be delayed 3 minutes between earth and mars. At best. At worst it's more like 40 minutes. So, no skype. Sorry Martians. Not much else to say about delay. It stinks. I have a couple ideas about how to beat it, but I will detail them later.
• Implementation
  How do you get steemit.com from Earth, to Mars. Exactly. Beam it up is not as simple as it sounds. I have again thought of a solution, but not a very good one. I would love input on this.

Solutions :)

• Money
  I think that Elon Musk has stated he is very interested in putting internet on mars. I would very much love to work with him. I am currently working on drafting an email. Many investors in general however I think would like to get a piece of the action, if I can present myself as serious enough. I think Money is hard, but its out there.
  -Lawyers
  This one, as I have said, I have no idea. I really am at a loss. I don't think it will be much of a problem but it could be the silent killer who knows.
  -Infrastructure
  Here is where internet 2.0 starts to kick in. Decentralize it. You want more specifics? Okay fine. I think that a lot of mesh networking suites have come out recently. I am in particular looking at CJDNS. Mesh networking is when routers talk to routers that are visible within there radio range. Those routers talk to neighbouring routers and so on. This allows for greatly reduced cost of networking. No cables will need to be lay. We have new specs coming out on the horizon that allow for Gb/s wifi speed and it is only getting quicker. I think that while fiber optic has its place, it may not be on mars. Mesh networking also allows for essentially no ISP. This is not where I make money. Like I said I am a freedom fighter. I don't wish people to pay costs they don't have to. In theory this would allow all martians to have access to each other for free. I would only charge for the bridge between Earth and Mars. The reason I think I would have to charge from Earth to Mars is because the way I currently am thinking about it, it would be quite costly. The way I am thinking about doing it is to have several layers of satellites. All the satellites would be spaced apart appropriately. For instance, several would all be in the same exact orbital path. They would all be able to talk to eachother. The next layer closer to mars would be another orbital path with several satellites all spaced apart. The first layer would be able to talk to the second layer. Several layers later you are close enough to mars that mars can send signals to it, and vice versa. This would be very expensive because it requires several thousand satellites put into precise orbits. Hakuna matata. This is why I need your help.
  -Delay
  Finally we come to the delay. As I said it is very long delay between Earth and Mars. Some websites like steemit and facebook might work, because they are not really time based. Other services like skype will not. My plan to combat loading steemit.com for 40 minutes is to download a copy of it locally. Every so often I will download the top 1000 or so most popular websites onto local servers and give them to the clients. Much like caching of content on Earth today. POST requests and things like that will be sent to Earth, but GET requests will come to the local cache for the technically inclined.

Thank you for listening to my plans. Again any feedback is good feedback so please comment below. If you shoot for the stars you might hit mars :)