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To be clear: "This could help with extraterrestrial telemedicine for astronauts, ISS building projects and even greatly benefit future deep space exploration.
by kurthr 5y ago
To 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.