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You would have to be extremely patient even for electromagnetic communication. A single round trip to the nearest star would take 8 years.
by mtdewcmu 13y ago
You would have to be extremely patient even for electromagnetic communication. A single round trip to the nearest star would take 8 years.
- rurounijones 13y agoTurn based games strategy games have a resurgence in popularity and become things passed down the family. "See this knight? My great-grandfather recruited it into this CIV V game 72 years ago. Now it is time for it to fulfil its destiny and crush the archer built by the Bob's great uncle"
- mtdewcmu 13y agoCorrespondence chess, maybe.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoThe future is diplomacy through play-by-post RPGs over interstellar Usenet.
- mtdewcmu 13y agoI think the interstellar protocols would have to be redesigned around UDP, because a reliable protocol would have too many round-trips and would be intolerably slow.
- deletes 13y agoIt is possible to engage in constant communication even with a very long delay. Simply both start sending questions of a certain theme, and after the one-way time you can have a fluid conversation, albeit the theme of conversation will change very slowly.