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Yes, Google will have servers on the moon, but I doubt they'd have a mirror of all youtube. Latency wouldn't necessarily affect watching a youtube video -- sur

Yes, Google will have servers on the moon, but I doubt they'd have a mirror of all youtube. Latency wouldn't necessarily affect watching a youtube video -- sure it would start slower, but latency != bandwidth. If you set your TCP window size high enough and could ensure low packet loss you could get some pretty fast transfers going. I suppose that also assumes gigabit+ radio links to span the distance.

electromagnetic 17y ago
Agreed, but to mirror all of youtube is redundant, the vast majority of people only watch the most popular videos. By providing a selection of 'this weeks best' you will surely provide low latency for the majority of files. Similarly ISP's can start doing site caching for popular pages providing lower latencies for popular sites and pages.
- protomyth 17y ago
  you gotta admit, servers on the moon would be the perfect off-site backup.
  - alex_c 17y ago
    Well, not quite perfect, you'd actually need a "server got hit by a meteor" contingency plan.
    - protomyth 17y ago
      yeah, but you get rid of all those nasty weather-related contingency plans.
      - Hoff 17y ago
        Until a solar storm rolls through.
- drhodes 17y ago
  In X hundred years people will have their real time mirrors of youtube/(representation-of-reality de jour), in their retina augmentations ;)