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It's also fascinating to think about how TCP is ineffective at that distance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by btgeekboy 10y ago
It's also fascinating to think about how TCP is ineffective at that distance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet is a good starting point to learn more.
- paulddraper 10y agoTCP had to be revisited when Wifi became popular. Space is that x 10000.
- visarga 10y agoThat means when humans finally colonize Mars, there will be two FaceBooks, FB Mars and FB Earth, with any communication between them running at a lag. I bet there will be AI research to create bots to act in "real time" on your behalf on the opposite planet. If the artificial agent can imitate your own actions and judgements, it would be a good way to surpass the speed of light. It will be necessary to build these agents because other interested parties could use the time lag to unfairly gain an advantage over you. The more we explore, the larger the time lag. With Jupyter it is 33-53 minutes. With Pluto it's 5h. The nearest star - 4 years. The Moon is at 1.3s.
- zeroer 10y agoThe last thing I need is a realtime Facebook now. I feel like I should build in a delay of ~1 week to everything I do.
- zachrose 10y agoYes. I world also like to see the delay randomized between 3 and 10 days so that nobody can tell what tempo you're replying at.
- saurik 10y agoIt seriously sounds like you might have a notification addiction: you should try forcing yourself to check messages at most only a few times a day for a while to detox.
- adambmedia 10y agoYou are truly seeing the future, my friend.
- btgeekboy 10y agoDistributed systems are hard to get correctly when there's a few extra milliseconds of latency. Imagine now having 30 minutes of latency be the norm, and sometimes more. It's an interesting problem I hope I'm around to witness.