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Moon Lasers Are Creating the Galaxy’s Fastest Internet
http://www.nationaljournal.com ^
| February 18, 2014
| By Alex Brown
Posted on 02/18/2014 2:20:30 PM PST by Red Badger
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Video at link..............
To: ShadowAce; SunkenCiv; KevinDavis
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:21:07 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger
If the 3 second round trip lag is not bothering you, then why not?
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:26:57 PM PST
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Red Badger
Lots of throughput but the 3 second ping time sucks.
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:28:26 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
To: Red Badger
Did someone say moon lasers?
To: Red Badger
The Big Bang guys bouncing a laser off the moon
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:30:13 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: BitWielder1; KarlInOhio
People put up with Skype, so 3 seconds is no big deal.......................
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:30:13 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Vaquero
Why is everyone wearing goggles if the laser is pointed at the moon?...................
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:31:09 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Red Badger
“Moon Lasers Are Creating the Galaxy’s Fastest Internet”
The galaxy is a very very very big place.
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:45:01 PM PST
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Things are only going to get worse.)
To: Red Badger
Warning! Do not look at laser with remaining eye!
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:51:31 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Red Badger
In one test, NASA sent an HD video of Bill Nye (the science shyster guy)
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:54:47 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Red Badger
Awesome!
Think of all the bandwidth-intensive MUSLIM OUTREACH N.A.S.A. could do..!!!!!!
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:56:14 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: Red Badger
Because the writers wrote it in the script.
Or perhaps when they were aiming it they were in closer proximity.
Funny show , though leftist written.
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:57:07 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Red Badger
This is the biggest pile of gobbledygook ive ever read...
ok what the hell are they talking about..what the hell does sending data to the moon have to do with data transfer rate improving..it does the opposite.latency goes up because the distance traveled goes up...
are they talking bandwidth because again sending them to the moon has nothing to do with that ......are they talking free space optics?shooting a laser to the moon because of a lack of atmosphere...you still passing through the earths atmosphere...I even had to crack up when I talked about the moon’s atmosphere the moon has no atmosphere
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posted on
02/18/2014 3:09:35 PM PST
by
tophat9000
(Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
To: Red Badger
3 second ping time is worthless for anything that requires any kind of response time. Would be okay for file transfers and streaming video, but that’s about it.
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posted on
02/18/2014 3:10:54 PM PST
by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: tophat9000
The main thing being described is the difference in speed between long-distance radio and light transmissions. We already know fiber has a faster maximum than copper, so it’s not a big deal. The big deal is when we can target a complete path on-the-fly.
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posted on
02/18/2014 3:20:08 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Red Badger
Gee, they have rediscovered tech we were experimenting with in 1985.
Every generation finds something wonderful and new.
That isn’t new.
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posted on
02/18/2014 3:23:33 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Red Badger
What is it that is amazing about this? Microwave and laser data transmission through the atmosphere has been around a long, long time. These speeds don’t seem to exciting, but I guess its good to bring to public attention.
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posted on
02/18/2014 3:47:19 PM PST
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: lepton
A radio wave and a light wave in freespace both travel at the speed of light... But in either case what is gained by using the moon as a reflect for any earth commutation .it just adds distance to any two points on the earth vs a terrestrial fiber path or even a geosynchronous satellite
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posted on
02/18/2014 4:20:34 PM PST
by
tophat9000
(Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
To: lepton
A radio wave and a light wave in freespace both travel at the speed of light... But in either case what is gained by using the moon as a reflect for any earth communication, it just adds distance to any two points on the earth vs a terrestrial fiber path or even a geosynchronous satellite
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posted on
02/18/2014 4:21:40 PM PST
by
tophat9000
(Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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