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To put it into perspective: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/overview/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/overvi... Ac
by disconnected 7y ago
To put it into perspective:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/overview/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/overvi...
According to this (at the time of reading) a one way trip at the speed of light is ~75 minutes, so you will have approximately two and a half hours of ping.
Ouch.
Still, it raises an interesting question: how would a hypothetical Earth-Titan network protocol work?
- tomrod 7y agoBatch instead of stream I'd reckon.
- tericho 7y agoCan't do much about the time it takes light to get here, so I guess the answer is we'd have to learn to love 75 minute ping :)
- keanebean86 7y agoAlcubierre warp drive powered Sneakernet?
- dredmorbius 7y agoIf you can't be with the one you ping, ping the one you're with.
- jvanderbot 7y agoThat protocol exists, it is called Delay-Tolerant-Networking. http://ipnsig.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Whats-new-in-ION.pdf http://ipnsig.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Whats-new-in-IO...
- blotter_paper 7y agoThe InterPlanetary File System is a thing, it just isn't interplanetary yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System