• NASA testing 'interplanetary Internet'
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Source: [url]http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/11/09/space-station-astronaut-drives-robot-on-earth-via-interplanetary-internet/[/url] [quote] NASA and the European Space Agency have tested out a prototype system that may one day help enable Internet-like communications between Earth and robots on another planet. Astronaut Sunita Williams, commander of the International Space Station's current Expedition 33 mission, used NASA's experimental Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to drive a small LEGO robot at the European Space Operations Center in Germany late last month. The European-led experiment simulated a scenario in which an astronaut orbiting another world controls a robotic rover on the planet's surface, NASA officials said. "The demonstration showed the feasibility of using a new communications infrastructure to send commands to a surface robot from an orbiting spacecraft and receive images and data back from the robot," Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator for space communications and navigation at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement. "The experimental DTN we've tested from the space station may one day be used by humans on a spacecraft in orbit around Mars to operate robots on the surface, or from Earth using orbiting satellites as relay stations," Younes added. NASA's DTN architecture is a new technology designed to enable standardized communications over long distances and through time delays, agency officials said. At its core is something called the Bundle Protocol (BP), which is similar to the Internet Protocol, or IP, that serves as the heart of the Internet here on Earth. The big difference between the two is that IP assumes a seamless end-to-end data path, while BP is built to account for errors and disconnections — glitches that commonly plague deep-space communications. Data move through the BP network in a series of short hops, waiting at one node until the next link becomes available, NASA officials said. The space station's current Expedition 33 consists of six crewmembers: NASA astronauts Williams and Kevin Ford, Japanese spaceflyer Akihiko Hoshide and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko, Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy. [/quote] Fucking amazing.
"This is one small fap for man..."
[QUOTE=smurfy;38383687]"This is one small fap for man..."[/QUOTE] "...one giant load for mankind."
but how much slower is this new protocol
Lets call it: "Outernet!"
[QUOTE=Bradyns;38383941]Lets call it: "Outernet!"[/QUOTE] Extranet.
"HEY ADMIN BAN MARVINMARTIAN131 LOOK AT HIS PING HE'S LAGGING THE SERVER!!!"
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;38383983]"HEY ADMIN BAN MARVINMARTIAN131 LOOK AT HIS PING HE'S LAGGING THE SERVER!!!"[/QUOTE] Player Mooninite101 (Colony 2038-392, Northern Quadrant, Moon, SOL SYSTEM) has joined the game. Player Mooninite101 has been kicked from the game ("GeoLimit: Mars Master Race only")
[QUOTE=Swebonny;38383961]Extranet.[/QUOTE] exonet sounds badass
That inter-planetary-net connection would be used for non real time stuff, like downloads or e-mails. You could also browse websites, I guess. But you couldn't play online games how we are used to do it. Maybe there will be some non-real time online games where the ping doesn't matter much. Chess would be a good start. :v:
Playing Natural Selection 2 with martians
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;38384031]Player Mooninite101 (Colony 2038-392, Northern Quadrant, Moon, SOL SYSTEM) has joined the game. Player Mooninite101 has been kicked from the game ("GeoLimit: Mars Master Race only")[/QUOTE] MoonDude1337 : A/S/L 12 hours later alienchix911: 18 f Pluto
I wonder if they could use quantum state teleportation for lagless space net?
Interplanetary internet would be pretty different from regular internet, web browsing would be awkward even with just the second or so of lag between the earth and moon. You'd need a different way of requesting information for the minutes to hours of delay between planets, even ignoring all the technical problems with whatever system would be needed for it.
"Stream HOT, STEAMY Martian babes directly from Mars [b]!LIVE![/b], for only $299.99 a month!" :v:
Oh God imagine the AOL chat room bots...
SPECIAL NEWS: HACKERS FROM MARS CRASHED EARTH
Global Area Network? Sign me up.
And it'll probably still be fucking IPv4.
aeiounet
[QUOTE=koeniginator;38384990]aeiounet[/QUOTE] A division of Madden Enterprises.
brb DDOSing Curiosity
Well, regardless of how useful a system-wide extranet will be, unless we find FTL loopholes for transmitting information, real-time interplanetary gaming would be nearly impossible, though turn-based strategy would still be very much a viable genre. Video conferencing and Skype calls would also have a fair bit of lag too. Here's hoping we can quantum-entangle routers between the planets to lessen this problem.
Meanwhile I'm stuck with 6mb/s because faster speeds can't reach me :C
[QUOTE=proch;38385166]Meanwhile I'm stuck with 6mb/s because faster speeds can't reach me :C[/QUOTE] Soon, Mars will have better internet that the rural mid-west US.
duh, just run a really long wire problem solved
Download speeds in space would probably be better than average US internet
[QUOTE=ironman17;38385116]Well, regardless of how useful a system-wide extranet will be, unless we find FTL loopholes for transmitting information, real-time interplanetary gaming would be nearly impossible, though turn-based strategy would still be very much a viable genre. Video conferencing and Skype calls would also have a fair bit of lag too. Here's hoping we can quantum-entangle routers between the planets to lessen this problem.[/QUOTE] Right, we're pouring billions of dollars into an interplanetary internet so astronauts can play Counter Strike
That's just thinking far forwards to when civilian colony bases are established.
In the far future I imagine the extranet would be more or less a big system that instances or relays localized internets with each other. I.E. you'd have the earth internet as a seperate high speed thing and the mars internet as a seperate high speed thing, between the two both of them are mirrored and get "updated" once every 24 hours or so by the extranet. So everyday you'd see updates between both mars and earth users (roughly), but instant updates from people from your own local internet. This would likely cause a division in how we percieve the "internet", in that you generally don't directly chat or communicate with people outside your internet via the extranet - but information, news, blog posts, status updates, etc are all synced between the two internets via the extranet on a regular basis. So say in the future on Spacepunch everyone from mars and from earth doesn't see each other's postings until the extranet updates the mirroring, which we'd have to connect to in order to see, and as such posts that are from mars or whatever would show up greyed out or a different color to indicate that the post isn't "real time 2 minutes ago" but "extranet 2 minutes ago". Or something. Or we could just invent wormholes already and/or share internet information in a quantum level, which equals out to me playing quake against someone who lives on mars with zero ping.
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