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CNET reports Faster Than Light communications
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoThey don't. Star Trek is mentioned because of holograms. Nowhere FTL-comms are mentioned.
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoThe article does imply FTL, mentioning that the hologram will stay onboard and have real-time communication. Which is totally false. Where do people get these ideas?!
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoStar Trek of course :-)
- kurthr 5y agoTo be clear: "This could help with extraterrestrial telemedicine for astronauts, ISS building projects and even greatly benefit future deep space exploration. The latter bit is key, because standard radio communications typically experience up to 20-minute delays when talking to systems way (way) out into the void. With holoportation, holoporters could just stay onboard for real-time communication."
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoWhich is totally misleading. "Holoportation" still uses two way communication and is going to have just as long of delays as any other form of communication. Holoportation to Voyager 1 won't suddenly let you communicate with it in real time, it's still going to be a 40+ hour round trip time.
- krapp 5y agoIt's... it's just Microsoft's compression technology for 3D video. The article title is grossly editorialized but the actual article isn't much better. It's just really expensive AR.
- dekhn 5y agoFlagged because no for multiple reasons.