>"The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 19 million miles away by NASA’s laser communications demonstration, marking a historic mile

>"The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 19 million miles away by NASA’s laser communications demonstration, marking a historic milestone." My thoughts: As Neil Armstrong might say: "One small step for Man, one giant leap for... Taters?!?!?!?!? No, I'm just kidding about that of course! <g> :-) <g> (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong) But on a more serious note, I think what NASA has accomplished here is a big step forward for future high bandwidth deep space communication... Also, let's not forget that light, in this case, laser light, should travel at least a little bit faster than radio waves (the previous "old skool" method for deep space communication) -- at least if the classical physics EM theories hold true. (Side note: It would be interesting to know if laser light travels any faster, if even by the smallest amount, than regular light over extremely long distances -- but that's probably a future experiment for future experimenters...) Anyway, it's a huge step forward for deep space communication! Way to go NASA!!! You guys rock! (As Felix Schlang might say!)