@ralpher05 Among many other things, yes. Just putting people on another planet for flags and footprints does not make us a space civilization. If we truly want to live and work across the galaxy, then we'll need to learn to communicate across said galaxy too. The Internet is part of that as it is a communications vehicle.
@Drsharky43 The issue isn't relay stations but rather the speed of light limitations, which is where the 6 minute figure comes in... And even that is a best case scenario. It gets worse from there based on where Mars is in relation to Earth.
It's really interesting to think about the speed of light limit, and how that would affect interplanetary or even interstellar communication in the more or less distant future.
is a computer on earth the best way to solve the problem, lets take mars
its a 6 min round trip, if you had a computer on earth to load the whole page and then send that page in one big packet instead of little packets that would speed it up a bit,
but more likely it would be better to send a list of instructions for the computer on earth to do , then while it went through just downloading the websites and sending them in one big packet to mars, so someone needs to come up with a new protocol
@Buttmunch5000 it's still 6 minutes. Anyway, you could put a proxy on the moon that would cache the accessed data, so repeated access of the same data will result in much faster load.
Anyway, on the earth we have fiber optic, light is used to transfer the data. Maybe we could use beam of light to send data through vacuum of space. At the speed of light, 1.5 seconds is needed for the light to arrive from earth to the moon, that's much better ;)
540000 ping from mars at the best of times.
ouch.
Though, anyone who had to deal with the realy slow dialup could probably deal with the moon and its ping time of "only" 2000.
alphamone 8 months ago
The martians need subspace/FTL radio communications ;)
trekkie604 2 years ago
space fairing civilization = Internet in space? LOL!
ralpher05 2 years ago
@ralpher05 Among many other things, yes. Just putting people on another planet for flags and footprints does not make us a space civilization. If we truly want to live and work across the galaxy, then we'll need to learn to communicate across said galaxy too. The Internet is part of that as it is a communications vehicle.
spacevidcast 2 years ago
Well, what about a washing machine? ISS doesn't have a washing machine!
ralpher05 2 years ago
Why don't we add Satlelight relay to power up and send it on its way like Hub in space between Moon or Mars.
Drsharky43 2 years ago
@Drsharky43 The issue isn't relay stations but rather the speed of light limitations, which is where the 6 minute figure comes in... And even that is a best case scenario. It gets worse from there based on where Mars is in relation to Earth.
spacevidcast 2 years ago
Downloading pr0n LOL
xzaz2 2 years ago
It's really interesting to think about the speed of light limit, and how that would affect interplanetary or even interstellar communication in the more or less distant future.
hyhhy 2 years ago
It affects us today in our drive planning for the Mars Exploration Rovers.
QuasiRandomViewer 2 years ago
looks like there network admin has been slacking :-P
CiphersSon 2 years ago
is a computer on earth the best way to solve the problem, lets take mars
its a 6 min round trip, if you had a computer on earth to load the whole page and then send that page in one big packet instead of little packets that would speed it up a bit,
but more likely it would be better to send a list of instructions for the computer on earth to do , then while it went through just downloading the websites and sending them in one big packet to mars, so someone needs to come up with a new protocol
Buttmunch5000 2 years ago
@Buttmunch5000 it's still 6 minutes. Anyway, you could put a proxy on the moon that would cache the accessed data, so repeated access of the same data will result in much faster load.
Anyway, on the earth we have fiber optic, light is used to transfer the data. Maybe we could use beam of light to send data through vacuum of space. At the speed of light, 1.5 seconds is needed for the light to arrive from earth to the moon, that's much better ;)
furculita 2 years ago
Because we all know why the internet is realy realy great! ...
frag971 2 years ago
2:10 -- 3 light minutes is only when Mars and Earth are at their closest. Their maximum separation exceeds 20 light minutes.
QuasiRandomViewer 2 years ago
YIKES! 11:00 PM..... might be able to see a tad bit of it.
thesmart358 2 years ago
agreed (second comment) :)
SpaceOz08 2 years ago
I would imagine having internet on the moon would be great. Giving you the feeling of being connected to the world.
kevman5 2 years ago 2
Then do skype or other social media ;D.
Chrisjr2007 2 years ago