NASA's interplanetary Internet tests a success, Vint Cerf triumphs again
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Nov 19th 2008 5:25AM
posted Nov 19th 2008 5:25AM
"In space today, an operations team must manually schedule each link and generate all the commands to specify which data to send, when to send it, and where to send it. With standardized DTN, this can all be done automatically."Testing of the Deep Space Network began in October with twice-weekly communications between NASA's Epoxi spacecraft (on a mission to rendezvous with Comet Hartley 2) and nine ground-based nodes meant to simulate Mars landers, orbiters, and operation centers. The International Space Station is scheduled to join the testing next summer. Although the nature of the data transmitted wasn't specified, we can only presume that it was laced with Google ads for Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.
Imagine trying to play an FPS with 4,000 ping O.o
A 4 Second delay is very generous for inter-planetary communication.
Not really. Its relatively close so it shouldn't be over 4-5 seconds.
384,403 kilometers (Earth To Moon) = 1.28223039 light seconds
Depending on the type of wave it uses, it could be near light speed communication through a vacuum.
I don't see the lag problem here. You can clearly see from the picture that those two planets are like RIGHT NEXT TO each other.
I'm not moving to Mars till they get 3G.
4 seconds within 20,000,000 miles? wow, suddenly speed of light seems so slow to me.
As long as wireless security keeps the Aliens from leeching our interwebs. How do you secure intergalactic broadband, anyway?
LAGGGGGGG
"309,823,490,234 ping?!! where is this guy?"
i can see someone beat me to it.... mine was better
Saw a similar comment on slashdot, his was better than the product of yours and Erb's.
No it wasn't :p
lol aliens join couterstrike
Finally... Porn in space.
Sheesh buddy. Please use the code word: pr0n.
So that kids and bosses wont understand.
Don't forget spam and ads in space as well.
@ Kris
Pretty sure the IT guys are onto your "code word" by now, dude.
They don't have Seagate harddrives yet though.
Now ET can PM or email home. No more long-distance charges.
"seeeeend mooooooore Reeeeeeeses Pieeeeeeces"
"E.T. Facebook home!"
now...we can rick roll the aliens.
One Rick roll too many is what will cause the War of the Worlds.
Porn in space would be nice. But after a while it's like living in a snow-globe.
So, like, you watch "Family Guy" and stuff. Hey, did you see the one where they threw in some pop-culture references? That was cool!
Redefining the term Cyberspace
Could someone please send the technicians who managed to do this over to my house, so they can fix my wi-fi?
Ahh... i can see the space porn titles now....Debbie does Uranus!
Now imagine internet on Mars with 30min delay.
I looked at this picture and thought "Death Star"
Nice Snow Crash reference there....
@ DT "snowglobe".......*points finger at screen and cackles*
One step closer to downloading porn for the those needy astronauts when out on exploration missions.
After the flood of astronauts reliving 5 lost years of porn, are they are going to have to start worrying about viruses infecting the space station?
The secret is the enormous satellite on Earth. Though I'm kind of mad they're using the West Coast, I don't want to look out my window and see that! It'll completely block out the sunset.
Heh, it's just UUCP all over again. Usenet here we come....
Really cool.
"we can only presume that it was laced with Google ads for Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong."
This made my day so hard it's tomorrow.
this is great! Now we'll be able to stop the alien invasion through remote hacking, instead of having to fly their own spacecraft back up to the mothership and plug in directly with our macintosh powerbook
BitTorrent.
In space.
With no **AA jurisdiction.
Something tells me the Pirate Bay team should start a fundraiser to move their many servers to the ISS.
I'd donate every single cent I have! After all I will be getting stuff for free back, so no need for the money :p
"Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong"
Snowcrash reference completely made this entire post.
looking forward to the first martian 419 scam
this is bowie to bowie do you hear me out there maan?
This is some great technology. Now all we need are packet radio neural interfaces to really exploit it.
Read the Continuing Time series by Daniel Keyes Moran. He fully described a workable system a number of years ago.
Finally I can get in tuch with granny!
great, so when are we getting to another body in our galaxy?
Those Geek Squad kids are really gonna start earning their pay.
Ladies and gentlemen we have skynet
I'm searching an alien to chat lol..
I don't know how they can claim success. There's not even any evidence of tubes anywhere in the picture.
So will the New Rovers have UPnP..?
Ah google, is there no problem you can't appear to solve in news articles?
Ah google, is there no problem you can't appear to solve in news articles?
I can see it already; interplanetary WiMax!
Now we know what protocol the Mailman will be using.