But the idea has prompted debate and reflection in the west, where there is an average of about 20 people to each square kilometer, compared with 1,147 for each square kilometer in Dublin.
Mr. Gage, who headed the NetDay project for connecting American schools to the Internet, said that rural areas in the developing world would cost as little as a $1,000 a kilometer, compared with $1 million to deploy a network over the same distance in New York City.
Beginning in 2012, European carmakers will have three years to modify their fleets of new cars to emit on average no more than 120 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer, compared with the current European average of about 158 grams per kilometer.
Results suggest the sun's equatorial bulge is only 12 kilometers or so, compared with its average diameter of nearly 1.4 million kilometers.
Average speed is up to 32 kilometers per hour, compared with a creeping 19kph during the meltdown.
On Thursday, the committee voted in favor of sticking to proposals mandating that the average new car should emit an average of 130 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer by 2012, compared with a current European average of 158 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer.
For on-time travel, passenger rail emits less CO2 and CO per passenger-kilometer compared to a LDGV with one or two occupants.
But a new data visualization accompanying a NASA release today shows that in 1984, old ice which is supposed to withstand many cycles of warming and cooling made up 1.9 million square kilometers of sea ice cover, compared with just 109,998 square kilometers as of this September.
The map reveals a dramatic landscape of higher highs and lower lows, with a total range in elevation of 30 kilometers (km), compared to just 20 km for Earth.
