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Was Google wrong (159 AU in light hours), or was the 159 AU I pulled from their comment off? Google answered with a conversion box, so I assumed it had a human
by Kye 4y ago
Was Google wrong (159 AU in light hours), or was the 159 AU I pulled from their comment off? Google answered with a conversion box, so I assumed it had a human checking the formulas and wasn't from their notoriously unreliable auto-snippets.
- shagie 4y agoDSN is interested in the round trip time - they're both right. How long does it take to ACK the data that was sent? 1.84 days. How old is the data that was sent? 0.92 days (22 hours). Communication protocols at that distance are kind of interesting. Things like dropped data and delays can make it challenging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/engineering/technology/disruption_tolerant_networking_overview https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/engineering/techn... https://ipnsig.org/tag/deep-space-network/ https://ipnsig.org/tag/deep-space-network/ https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/02/science/spacecraft-passes-a-critical-test.html?unlocked_article_code=hBBXhY68kw4onDAZ8jc8tjxF-ORQ3xyKQyIvfWBEmk1eUMyFXpFK26qBShUdhulioha7gfO7szqFVsg5uDOioXq8QSCCPMQB8xUCObxJiELfJziUUfrVTvzTQciT6WLP8t7bC_hL5McmXeH7tvH7Huqyj__Viv7DcO-IQljkErZrP2mhTXaUnVrlxLZOpZE0qRFxY__Eq7tCCoEdEcCRoTqwcLjDGuuv8xR2cWnNxBd-J2dpSYWsWZicLw1-1yh3aoV0bYWInS86FfmxWF1VhMbG83R_Ef5-uBDkRSe_XQOX46QTdCXpltygGm7ziGBZjvTeyP0JS0OYQtP6zseY3g5cqspn8xLOR9Xm&giftCopy=1_CurrentCopy&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/02/science/spacecraft-passes...