This means that certain iron meteorites may tell us what the precursor material for the primordial Earth was like. There's also the possibility that larger versions of this material may still be hiding among the asteroids. The hunt for them is on.

The entire Earth would be in bake mode.

We created something like a traffic map, like the Los Angeles Freeway system.

The odds of one hitting us tomorrow are very small, but they're not zero. It behooves us to go out and find these objects.

This series of applications and some of the underlying network technology that's being tested in the NTON is the precursor for what all networks will be like in five to 10 years. Its goal is to hook people up at about 1,000 times the data rate that most businesses are hooked up today.

It's sort of a precursor of a Broadway show.