On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:03:05PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Vint covered that kind of store and forward thing - the difference is > that right now, the earth's rotation, and the transmission lag, mean > that this wont work too well
Of course it doesn't work right now. The sky is not full of birds a lightsecond apart. Which was my point: don't fix the protocols, increase router density. Yes, you can and should fix protocols, too. At GBPs laser line of sight and lightminute distances vacuum is a damned good FIFO. But that's a yet another degree of freedom. > Unless you'd care to invent faster than light transmission? Its been That would be equivalent to retrocausality and time travel. > the holy grail of hard mil SF authors (david weber etc) who realize that > you do need near real time communication with base, but are also aware > of the distances involved, so you cant do stuff like what Star Trek does Pingpong to Luna surface is 2.5 s. Add 2-3 birds in high Moon orbit, and it's still less than 3 s. You will live to see the sky so full of birds you can't sleep, and all night critters will go crazy. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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