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That would be interesting, I think it'd still end up being a bit too much for anything interactive, but would be much closer to usable
by earlz 11y ago
That would be interesting, I think it'd still end up being a bit too much for anything interactive, but would be much closer to usable
- TeMPOraL 11y agoNot really no. LEO is 160-2000km up; it takes light from 1 to 12 milliseconds to do a roundtrip there. This is an order of magnitude faster than it takes your phone or tablet to react to touch input. It'll be more than enough for interactive things.
- smoyer 11y agoAdd to this that most terrestrial networking is done over fiber optics - the speed of light through the glass is about 2/3 the speed of light in a vacuum. If you're transmitting radio waves into space and between satellites, you'd be as fast as most terrestrial networks so long as the transmitted arc plus twice the altitude was less than 1.5 times the same arc at ground level. As an aside, the lower speed of light through fiber optic cable is one reason many stock trading platforms use line-of-sight microwave for their primary transmission. For HFT, those uS (and even nS) matter.