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I think all of us spend an unhealthy amount of time on the Internet, but that’s what makes it awesome. A bottle of bourbon and three grande meals from Taco Bell taught us the joys of things that are bad for us years ago. Now that the Internet has taken over, it would be interesting to see just how much time we spend on this wonderful invention of the gods. Worry not, dear reader, as we have all those statistics right here.

MBAOnline has created this handy infographic compiling the insane amount of time we spend on the Internet. This isn’t just the important stuff either, this is the ridiculously stupid stuff we waste our time with online. Let’s start with the most important statistic first though. It’s said that all the information we consume as a collective whole daily on the Internet would fill 168 million DVDs. That’s a lot of copies of Apocalypse Now.

As for our social networking obsession, 174 million people visit Facebook a day. That’s compared to 40 million for Twitter a day, 22 million for LinkedIn, 20 million for Google+ and 17 million on Pinterest. In what makes me feel bad, we spend 4.7 billion minutes on Facebook a day.

As for videos, 864,000 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded to the Internet every day. As the infographic points out, that’s 98 years of “non-stop cat videos.”

What may be a topic close to many Internet users’ hearts, the average Netizen spends 14.6 minutes watching porn. They even go so far as to say that the average “fap session” lasts 12 minutes.

All these and other stats are collected below to make us all feel bad about how much time we’re wasting online. Oh, who am I kidding? The Internet is awesome and we should feel good about how much we use it.

Created by: MBA Online

Space Settlement Will Be Funded by Corporations and Private Individuals, Not NASA!

Google is manufacturing SpaceGoods for the private sector

ead of NASA Ames Research Center, Dr. S. Pete Worden, has said that he expects any colonization of Mars, the Moon, or asteroids to be done by private companies.

Dr. Worden has been very valuable to NASA: “In the past three years, Worden has completely transformed Ames, reinvigorating the center’s workforce and taking a leadership role in important, cost-effective small satellite missions. ”

Space Settlement Will Be Funded by Corporations and Private Individuals, Not NASA!

According to The Register, Worden told them that “the agency was firmly enmeshing itself with the private sector. [...] governments can develop new technology and do some of the exciting early exploration but in the long run it’s the private sector that finds ways to make profit, finds ways to expand humanity. That’s really our tack.”

He explained that explorations throughout history have tended to be paid with moneys from independently wealthy individuals, government funds, and corporations.

Wealthy entrepreneurs like PayPal and SpaceX co-founder, Elon Musk, have held conversations with Worden about funding settlement missions to the moon. Musk believes that it is very important that humans become multi-planetary while they can.

Beyond funding concerns, there are other limitations to having NASA execute these types of missions. Settlement missions to Mars would have to be one way, and that is only something that can be achieved in the private sector. There is no government funded mission that could keep someone on Mars forever if they changed their mind.

Google has a team of engineers working on technology that it can sell to space companies and orbit-happy entrepreneurs like Musk. I call them Google SpaceGoods.

Tiffany Montague, a former US Air Force high-altitude pilot, is the manager of Google’s space initiatives. Her official work title with Google is “Intergalactic Federation King Almighty and Commander of the Universe.” How humbling.

Montague says that Google’s SpaceGoods are “[seeing] an emerging market. Not everything we do is tied to immediate revenue; we take a long-range view of the world. That said, we hope in the very long run that they will make money too.”

This commander has applied to become an Astronaut twice and hopes that everyone will be able to enter space if they want.

Her desire to become space bound is so strong that she even told The Register that if she can’t get a trip to the moon in her lifetime she will try to increase her odds with cryogenics.

Imagine Montague in 2222 A.D. coming to from her cryogenic coma. When she is asked who she is and states that she was a pilot and Intergalactic Federation King Almighty and Commander of the Universe for Google, people might think she is a goddess from the future.

Microsoft Donates “Mayhem” To Outercurve Foundation

Open-source scripting software developed by Microsoft Research

The Outercurve Foundation has announced that Microsoft Research has donated an open-source scripting system called Mayhem to the foundation. Mayhem is to serve as the centerpiece of Outercurve’s newly-formed Innovators Gallery.

Mayhem is scripting software designed to enable non-programers to interconnect services and devices both within and outside of the Windows ecosystem. Paul Dietz, leader of the Mayhem Project, says that Mayhem promises to move the PC away from being “a tool that people use” and turn it into “a servant that people command to take action on their behalf.” Mayhem promises to give users a high degree of control over their entire Microsoft ecosystem – PC, mobile phone, and Xbox.

Outercurve’s Innovators Gallery plays host to a variety of open source projects that showcase the leading edge of innovative technologies. The Outercurve Foundation is a non-profit organization that prvides software IP management and project development governance for organizations to develop collaborative, open source software.