"They had real trouble with the original design," Dottie admitted. "Architects have such big egos. He didn’t want any bunch of geeks telling him that ugly things work better sometimes." Dottie spread her hands. "So we’re not Keck II or Mauna Loa, okay? But those materials are top-notch, really built to last. As for our bandwidth, well . . . This will be Internet2’s only live cyber-observatory. Everything streaming in real time right over the NSF backbone. Tom DeFanti wanted every kid in every inner-city school to see the whole universe. If they couldn’t see their sky any more because of all that city glare, well, he’d just give them the universe, free, by the Info Superhighway. And if Al Gore was President now . . . well, he probably could have got a lot of federal money for doing that."