The strongest sector funds focused on real estate, cyclical industries, energy and other natural resources, while technology and communications lagged.
Other natural-resource and communications funds lagged.
The vast distance between Mars and Earth means there is a 13-minute lag in communications, making real-time intervention impossible.
As the crew gets further away from Earth, they will no longer have the ability to talk in real time with home, as depending on the alignment of Earth and Mars, the time lag for communications will be up to 20 minutes each way.
Fort Bliss, meanwhile, is one of the country's biggest army posts, a fact which draws private contractors and researchers to the region.Colonel Dave Miller, deputy director of the army's brigade modernisation command, explains that military communications systems have sometimes lagged years behind those in the commercial world.
With respect to wireless communications, positioning is severely lagging behind in terms of standardization efforts: when it comes to terrestrial-based positioning, be it indoor or outdoor, an international agreement on a set of standard techniques to be developed and adopted still has to come.
Current laws banning stalking and wiretapping lag behind modern communications, with no provision barring companies from marketing a stalking app.
The authority acknowledges that communications in its vast system lag behind those in other cities, but says it is improving its Web site, getting information to station agents just minutes after disruptions begin and slowly adding digital signs on platforms.
Interactive systems engage users in ways that are impossible with communications requiring a significant time lag, such as letter writing or even e-mail.
Their spaceship had no windows, and the protocols demanded their communications endured a similar time lag to that encountered by real messages as they travel the vast distance between Earth and Mars.
