Now You Can Use Internet On The Moon
1.21 Gigawatts Marty! The first broadband wireless Internet connection is set up on the moon, and it shattered records.
Questions of the day: Something's not right about Patty, why are the soles of her feet white?
Kittalia A. sent us the following questions about Patty, the Bigfoot in the Patterson-Gimlin film. They are all very good questions that we we wish we knew the answers to. We're no "Henry May" and it's times like this that we wish we had his number. Since we don't have Henry around whenever we need him, here are some easy questions for all you Patterson-Gimlin believers to try and answer:
Nice & first
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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