US Government To Help Astronauts Get Their WoW Fix

The U.S. Department of Defense is hard at work on the "Iris" project, that would see the Internet make its way to space by 2009. This project would allow satellite-to-satellite communications and enhance military communications. Iris, which means Internet Router Protocol In Space, must now be put up there beside Google as the computer program now most likely to become self-aware and try and take over the world.

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