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Not in person, but it would be an interesting target for Breakthrough Starshot.
by robin_reala 7y ago
Not in person, but it would be an interesting target for Breakthrough Starshot.
- iamgopal 7y agosome novel much have been written about two civilisations multiple light years apart, communicating using messages that have latency of years...any examples ?
- lmm 7y agoVernor Vinge predicted a future galactic usenet - unreliable messages that might take a while to arrive, or need to go via multiple possible paths, are what usenet was built for.
- m4rtink 7y agoMany collonial empires worked with such latency before trains, steam ships, telegraph and wireless comunication became available.
- semi-extrinsic 7y agoI'm currently reading the Engines of Light trilogy by Ken MacLeod. In that universe, there is no FTL travel nor communication, but starships can travel literally at the speed of light. There are "spheres of influence" spanning some tens of lightyears, and the information delay between worlds is indeed a plot element.
- sten 7y agoThe communication delay is one of the key plot elements in The Three Body Problem books.
- sfifs 7y agoIt's a major plot element in Forever War.
- unlit_spark 7y agoDidn't know about about this project but I read more in the past hour and it seems reachable. Too bad it already has a destination. Hope I live to see the message it comes back from this.