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NASA uses laser to send video of a cat named Taters over 19 million miles(www.cbsnews.com)

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Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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What strikes me is not the bandwidth achieved but the precision of the technology to aim the laser. 19 million miles is a great distance to successfully aim a beam of light. As this technology develops, real time communications with objects in orbit like around Mars will be possible.

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SirHery@lemmy.world
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Well realtime is just not true. But cool technology nonetheless.

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paholg@lemm.ee
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It’s really not at these scales. Earth and Mars go from roughly 4 light minutes apart to over 20.

At the best case, saying something and then waiting 8 minutes for a response is hardly what I’d call “real time”.

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Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Speed of light is insanely slow at the cosmic scale.

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Rosco@sh.itjust.works
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It’s the fastest speed information can go through space, as far as we know. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of space. And a mean a LOT.

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mesamune@lemmy.world
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I’m wondering if we will need to tweak our Internet protocols to include interplanetary time? I would imagine mirroring would be much more important. Because light can only go so fast.

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ooterness@lemmy.world
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Yes, the high latency and intermittent connectivity is a big challenge. Delay tolerant networking (DTN) is one good way of solving this problem.

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Doorbook@lemmy.world
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I think the issue, again will be date and time.

DDMMYYYY + Planet + Orbit?

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itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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software developers are seething

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Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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UTC and forget

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Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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I’m sure several OSI layers have already been modified by NASA to suit their needs. But, the protocols will pretty much remain standard.

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gens@programming.dev
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The beam is reeeealy wide by the time it gets there. Still a great achivement, though.

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littleblue✨@lemmy.world
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I presume that we’re not yet concerned with what the Ansible tech awoke in the vast emptiness between, hmm?

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