Sounds practical to me. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to re-visit my W-2 form, remember how much I paid the Feds this last year and cry myself to sleep.
It may be fast but you will always have half a second of lag, just from the distance alone. Not very practical when gaming. I predict we will see special moon-servers. There will be Skyping with your family from the moon, but you can forget about this on Mars.
You can even forget about browsing the internet on Mars; It takes about 14 minutes on average for a radio wave (with the speed of light) carrying your HTTP-request to travel from Earth to Mars. Then another 14 minutes for the radiowave carrying your requested data back to Mars.
So, unless we find some other means of modifying a field for communication (gravity field? Very hard to do.. and not safe in terms of eavesdropping), computer networks will largely remain a local planetary affair. But I guess this is kind of romantic; Imagine getting the whole Earth internet-update in your Martian network and getting all the new pics from 9GAG all at once!
This photograph was first shown at a Bigfoot conference in Washington over the weekend where witnesses were blown away. While we're currently seeking permission to post the screengrab here, we'll provide the link to the image on Facebook for now. The image is just a snapshot of a 5 minute-long footage of a Bigfoot caught on thermal. Washington Bigfoot researcher Derek Randles explains the image:
Adam Davies visits Dr. Johnson at the SOHA base camp, and tries a new experiment to test the relationship Dr. Johnson has with his bigfoot friends. But how did it turn out?
Here's the latest update from Stacy Brown Jr. from the mine shafts in Hellen Georgia: Stacy Brown Sr. and Jr. stumble upon a very odd spot in the woods behind the cabin.
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ReplyDeleteSounds practical to me. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to re-visit my W-2 form, remember how much I paid the Feds this last year and cry myself to sleep.
ReplyDeleteIt may be fast but you will always have half a second of lag, just from the distance alone. Not very practical when gaming. I predict we will see special moon-servers. There will be Skyping with your family from the moon, but you can forget about this on Mars.
ReplyDeleteYou can even forget about browsing the internet on Mars; It takes about 14 minutes on average for a radio wave (with the speed of light) carrying your HTTP-request to travel from Earth to Mars. Then another 14 minutes for the radiowave carrying your requested data back to Mars.
So, unless we find some other means of modifying a field for communication (gravity field? Very hard to do.. and not safe in terms of eavesdropping), computer networks will largely remain a local planetary affair. But I guess this is kind of romantic; Imagine getting the whole Earth internet-update in your Martian network and getting all the new pics from 9GAG all at once!
Thanks professor. I was thinking of relocating to a low Earth orbit before I read your post.
DeleteYeah, no way I'm going to Mars now. Screw that.
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