What’s Taters, precious?
Using a laser they could just as well send the cat. He would follow the laser just as well.
Guess what the cat is doing in the video
Taxes?
Faster than light travel achieved
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.
Well realtime is just not true. But cool technology nonetheless.
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Yes, the high latency and intermittent connectivity is a big challenge. Delay tolerant networking (DTN) is one good way of solving this problem.
I think the issue, again will be date and time.
DDMMYYYY + Planet + Orbit?
UTC and forget
I’m sure several OSI layers have already been modified by NASA to suit their needs. But, the protocols will pretty much remain standard.
The beam is reeeealy wide by the time it gets there. Still a great achivement, though.
I presume that we’re not yet concerned with what the Ansible tech awoke in the vast emptiness between, hmm?
Despite transmitting from millions of miles away, it was able to send the video faster than most broadband internet connections
That guy must be a Spectrum subscriber
The article isn’t terribly long, but here is the direct link to Taters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvJtVOmFs5Q
Somewhere on my work wiki is a picture of puppies that I sent over SWIFT to a bank to test that the relationship was setup properly.
Cats and dogs are always acceptable test messages
The MCRN & UNN would be proud.
Can’t wait til we can start watching interplanetary wars play out in real time.
Pretty sure it won’t be in real time with all the light delay.
This tracks
Taters, star surfer
“What’s Taters?”
“Po-ta-toes… Boil um mash um stick um in a stew!”
Taters should have his own wikipedia page. First outer space cat video.
Everything’s fun and games until the Kilrathi discover this and its point of origin.
That is cute. But why a cat?
Because cute
Right. I guess I kinda agree.
Joke answer: It’s cute.
Real answer: It’s cute and because of that broad appeal it’s easy good PR. NASA has to appeal to the populace to hope they demand their Representatives properly fund them.
