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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] SirHery@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well realtime is just not true. But cool technology nonetheless.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the issue, again will be date and time.

DDMMYYYY + Planet + Orbit?

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

software developers are seething

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

UTC and forget

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] gens@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I presume that we're not yet concerned with what the Ansible tech awoke in the vast emptiness between, hmm?