Immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit we began a dialogue with FEMA about their anticipated needs and short-term housing.

If it is only short-term money I think the budget can handle that.

There is no question that there is going to be an economic impact from the expansion in the short term. We're unsure at this point as to how great the impact will be.

Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.

There's some real issues about what we're going to do with temporary housing or long-term housing.

There are answers that cover the short, medium and long term. Everyone needs to realise that the thing the internet is good at is copying files, especially text files, between different locations. It is not a bug that needs cured, it doesn't need fixed, it's what makes the internet work. More people are reading more words from more screens everyday. It's not going to be long before the majority of text people read is in a digital format.