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A High-Bandwidth Interplanetary Connection
- trafficlight 15y agoLatency is still a bitch. How will I play Starcraft with my friends on Mars?
- xtacy 15y agoTurn based strategy games might win :-)
- sliverstorm 15y agoMail chess ftw. Or maybe mail Starcraft...?
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- ComputerGuru 15y agoWhat's interesting is that the latency for such a connection to the moon is stil less than the latency I get from my WiMax connection in the middle east many days..
- Groxx 15y agoStart thinking with portals, for starters. Though that didn't/won't go too well in the past/future. We will/have learned since/until?/by?/after then! (damn it, where's Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations when you need it?)
- Groxx 15y agoNo Doom love in this crowd? Sadness.
- sp332 15y agoWith real spaceships! :)
- fragsworth 15y ago> "If your slow Internet connection has you frustrated, just be glad you don't have to communicate with a probe on Mars. Even with new technology, scientists will be able to transmit only about 270 megabits per second between the two planets, not a lot of information when you're talking about superhigh-resolution photos." Wtf? 270 megabits per second is about 27 times as fast as my Internet connection. Am I missing something here? Are they joking?
- tlrobinson 15y agosuperhigh-resolution photos I don't know how big they're talking, but if they're GBs then 270Mbps could seem slow, especially if you only have a limited window of opportunity to download them.
- noselasd 15y agoAnd for those interested, here; http://public.ccsds.org/publications/default.aspx http://public.ccsds.org/publications/default.aspx are the specs for the protocols, formats, etc. currently used to communicate with stuff in space.