Comments on: NASA and Google Successfully Test Deep Space Internet

By: RetardedFishFrog

RetardedFishFrog — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:00:03 +0000

I would guess this would be a closed network so we don't have to worry about the Mars rovers getting a virus or hackers turning Cassini into a spam spewing zombie probe.

By: ShadowDancer

ShadowDancer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:48:37 +0000

RL Says:
November 19th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Does this mean I'll be able to use Google maps to help solve the "Where in the Universe" challenges?

Maybe not, but spam about "Sexy Naked Alien Martian Robots" probably isn't that far off.

By: dollhopf

dollhopf — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:59:16 +0000

tek_604

I have no idea what operating systems will be run on the machines that once will be connected to the Interplanetary Internet. So kvenlander can also zoom parts of the picture is with MS Windows' display utility "Magnifier" (magnify.exe):

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/magnifierturnon.mspx

By: tek_604

tek_604 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:53:47 +0000

kvenlander:

Google is your friend

http://www.tobedetermined.org/images/space%20internet%20network.png

(only slightly bigger, but is more readable)

By: alandee

alandee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:12:32 +0000

Google [ How to overrun pitiful human race ]
Results 1 – 10 of about 120,000 for how to overrun pitiful human race. (0.29 seconds)

oops, hope they've got some filtering software installed .. !

By: kvenlander

kvenlander — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:19:56 +0000

Where can I find a larger, readable, version of that picture?

By: Jammin

Jammin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:33:24 +0000

Glad to see progress is being made in the Interplanetary Internet. It definitely is the communication way of the future for our next gen spacecrafts. Radio is fine and dandy and robust, but we all know its limitations.

dollhopf, I hear your worries, but I think we're safe from that until a Universe-Wide-Web is created on the Internplantery Internet. And for that, we'll have to have humans or other life forms living in far off places who surf the UWW and blog about their irrelevant experiences

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:45:57 +0000

dollhopf – " rampant cynism dominates "discussion" forums … " – an ironic comment

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:50:47 +0000

hmm perhaps it would be good to have a transmission priority level built in.

By: Sili

Sili — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:54:32 +0000

I hope this can be made to work. It does seem a bit silly that we still have to time communications according to where we can point a handful of disks. I'm looking forward to the day we have big 'servers' running in Moon and Mars orbit.

By: Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:14:18 +0000

Good one, RL!

By: RL

RL — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:48:24 +0000

Does this mean I'll be able to use Google maps to help solve the "Where in the Universe" challenges?

By: dollhopf

dollhopf — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:55:59 +0000

While the Internet made such a huge progress from ancient DARPAnet to current World Wide Web, it also lost so much of uplifting communication in form and content. "Proletarianization" occured, spam is flooding eMail-accounts, salacious offers thread self-concepts, everybody is invited to publish absolutelly irrelevant expressions of themselves, rampant cynism dominates "discussion" forums …

The brilliancy of technological masterstrokes is made available to human voidness while the meaning of the word "communication" comprises so much of shortcoming and of menace of cultural basics.

So now our scientific avantgarde is engineering a new interplanetary internet? )))))