• NASA testing 'interplanetary Internet'
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Suddenly Curiosity is hacked by anon and starts to write "AIEOU" and "John Maddon" everywhere!
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;38384139]Playing Natural Selection 2 with martians[/QUOTE] playing D00M with martians
It wouldn't be too much fun without some crazy quantum shit that can transport information faster than the speed of light. If you lived on Mars, a website would take six minutes to load at best.
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[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;38385461]duh, just run a really long wire problem solved[/QUOTE] I hate to say this, but other planets are far enough away that even at light speed you're talking a 30 seconds to a minute of lag (for reference, the sun is 8 light minutes away, I believe). Sucks, but now we've got even more reason to try to get around the speed of light.
finally my dreams of downloading hanar babes off the extranet are becoming a reality
[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] Quick someone call Cisco! Also that would be damned expensive, and it would run at one 'bit' a cycle (However long that would take), meaning the transfer will be slow as FUCK, or you would need a lot of entangled particles to transfer data.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;38383941]Lets call it: "Outernet!"[/QUOTE] Your avatar makes this perfect.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;38383941]Lets call it: "Outernet!"[/QUOTE] i used to love those books when I was younger..
This thread has got me wondering: In the future, if we do ever achieve interplanetary travel on a regular basis with people being born and raised on mars, would people born on mars identify themselves as "martians"?
Nice. Now, make a portal to Mars...
[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;38391405]Nice. Now, make a portal to Mars...[/QUOTE] Logically that would be the next step.
Tubes in space?
[QUOTE=prooboo;38391225]This thread has got me wondering: In the future, if we do ever achieve interplanetary travel on a regular basis with people being born and raised on mars, would people born on mars identify themselves as "martians"?[/QUOTE] You ought to read Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Mars' series. Short answer: Yes.
Is there a better source for this than Fox News? the article doesn't really explain why new protocols are needed (The reason they provide, TCP/IP not being able to handle data loss well, is pretty wrong)
And it probably still won't come with the 'Punch this user in the face through the internet' button that it sorely needs.
[QUOTE=Kuro.;38392222]And it probably still won't come with the 'Punch this user in the face through the internet' button that it sorely needs.[/QUOTE] By the time we get to seamless data transfer over several thousand kilometers, I'm fairly certain we'll be able to have instantaneous teleportation anyway, so you can just go punch that person directly.
[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;38385461]duh, just run a really long wire problem solved[/QUOTE] When I was younger I actually designed a way of protecting it! [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2526787/Art/Pictures/Internet%20Shields%21.jpg[/IMG]
Can't we just lay cable from here to Mars?
[QUOTE='[CWG]RustySpannerz;38416894']When I was younger I actually designed a way of protecting it! [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2526787/Art/Pictures/Internet%20Shields%21.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Is that a wireless cable? [editline]e[/editline] No seriously, why is it broadcasting some sort of signal and also is a wire?
[QUOTE=Groat;38417255]Can't we just lay cable from here to Mars?[/QUOTE] Packet/data loss. You think your cable is slow now? Imagine if the wire had to stretch all the thousands of km to reach Mars. Not to mention the potential for severing due to passing asteroids.
Satellite connections are totally ass. Get to work NASA. Dedicated systems have sub-par ADSL speeds and hybrid voice/data satellites are total tits. 9600 baud.
'like this if you're watching this on mars'
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