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First Inter-Satellite Laser Link Established

Posted by timothy on from the science-fiction-technologies dept.

exceed writes: "The New Scientist is reporting: 'A long-distance laser communication link between two Earth-orbiting satellites has been established for the first time. The technique allows fast-moving, low Earth orbit satellites to relay information to the ground almost instantaneously via a geostationary satellite fixed in a much higher orbit.'" Update: 11/24 22:28 GMT by T : Sorry, it's a duplicate. The lashing has begun.

49 comments

  1. Again? by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Wasn't this reported just a couple of days ago?

    1. Re:Again? by Bobo+the+Space+Chimp · · Score: 1

      For when 0.8 seconds to get your data around the world just ain't fast enuf.

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  2. Guys, repeat stories? by Ambush · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here's the previous one, dated only a couple of days ago. hhmm...

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  3. Slashdot authors don't read... by mukund · · Score: 0, Redundant

    old Slashdot stories.

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  4. old old old by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    aaa bbb ccc seen it before

  5. So it's a duplicate, move on with your life. by ho11yw00d · · Score: 0, Redundant

    to quote the FAQ: These are just mistakes on the part of the staff. They happen. We have posted over ten thousand stories in our history. The occasional duplicate is inevitable.

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    1. Re:So it's a duplicate, move on with your life. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, they make mistakes, but this is pathetic considering the story is still on the front page under the Science column. Maybe slashdot authors should actually pay attention to what they post(such as shameless marketing gimicks like the XP shortage story).

  6. Is this a troll on the frontpage? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Somebody is checking how closely you read slashdot, Timmy.

  7. And in (un)related news... by sessamoid · · Score: 1

    And in (un)related news, the Linux kernel version 2.0 is finally released...

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  8. Yeah they do read by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They said a while back (few agos ago) that sometimes on the weekends they repost stories from earlier in the week to see if people pay attention. My guess is they like seeing all the people saying "wtf!? they already posted this!!" and then going on pissing themselves about it.

  9. this is not the first.. by Hoo00 · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is the second link on slashdot. The first one happened yesterday.

  10. Re:Repost? by ColaMan · · Score: 2

    Load up story - no "repost?" comments

    Type one out, hit submit, refresh page ... 3 "repost?" comments.

    Looks like we were all trying to get First Repost :-)

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  11. THANKS! by TheOnlyCoolTim · · Score: 1

    I'd forgotten about this story in the day or so since it had been last posted here! Thanks for reminding me!

    Tim

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  12. Second... by orionpi · · Score: 1

    Second satellite laser link established.

  13. Hey there it is by Alien54 · · Score: 2
    In the list of stories for the Science Section

    To be fair, the submittal processing module does not display previous posts for an editor to take a quick look at. so mistakes are easy. That area of the software needs work.

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    1. Re:Hey there it is by Telek · · Score: 2

      If they went through 50+ articles a day then perhaps I could agree with you, but come on, they have more than 200 articles submitted per day, and lately (especially pretty much every day this week) there has been a duplicate story. When there are only around 12 stories that are accepted, a quick 5 minute scan before going to go through the submission pile would have prevented all of these. I can't understand how they couldn't do that, especially how there aren't all that many stories. And if the editors themselves aren't even keeping up with what is happening on this site...

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    2. Re:Hey there it is by Alien54 · · Score: 2
      and the submittal page really only shows 30 or so out of that list.

      but we like lashing timothy, we do!

      before long someone is going to post some weird and sick S&M troll that might even be vaguely on topic for once.

      never mind about that thought. really.

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  14. how to get karma: by chocochip · · Score: 0, Troll

    Read slashdot. Post a story that appeared on /. the day after it appears.

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/22/2042 35 &mode=thread

  15. You're either a stooge or you don't understand. by seizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's not an excuse. It's pathetic - we just read the site from time to time - THEY (the editors, story posters) actually run it.

    Every day.

    As a full time, PAID job.

    Surely they have the memory span to remember an IDENTICAL article from TWO days ago. Sure, if it was posted 4000 articles ago, maybe I'd cut them some slack, but this ongoing, unceasing, uncaring duplicate and triplicate posting is lazy editing, no matter how you look at it.

    If they're trying to run an interesting and informative news source, they're failing, and they're not winning over any readers by showing their blatant disinterest in slashdot's actual community (read: SOURCE OF CASH).

    On a side note - notice there was absolutely no apology, explanation, or even reply, when 800 odd slashdot readers questioned JonKatz' ability to tell the truth in his "Message from Kabul" posting (couple of days ago, search for it if search is working).

    The fact remains that although slashdot is a brilliant concept, fairly brilliantly executed, with a brilliant readership, it seems that the higher-ups have lost interest in maintaining that brilliant status.

    You watch - they will get their come-uppance if they don't heed these problems.

    1. Re:You're either a stooge or you don't understand. by mgv · · Score: 1

      Its probably that someone else approved the first story. I doubt that the same editor would post twice.

      Michael

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    2. Re:You're either a stooge or you don't understand. by ho11yw00d · · Score: 1

      Well, I can agree with your arguements. And I can easily see their foundation (the truth). But before I grab a torch and pitchfork to storm the castle, I must admit that I make mistakes at work, my full time, paid job. And I don't think that an oversight rises to the level of "pathetic." As I suggested, we move on. However, your passion is more likely to invoke a response from the /. administrators.

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    3. Re:You're either a stooge or you don't understand. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yea but do they look at their own site once in a while?

    4. Re:You're either a stooge or you don't understand. by seizer · · Score: 1

      I don't deny everyone's error prone. But to run a business, and to consistently make the same very basic error is really terrible. Admit it, if we can spot it, then the posters/editors, who, let's not forget it, have Slashdot as their LIFE, should see it. Enough commas.

      Anyway, you're right - I'm getting too vehement about it - I can quite easily just go somewhere else, and perhaps I will one day! I'll keep the pitchfork in the cupboard for today though.

    5. Re:You're either a stooge or you don't understand. by ho11yw00d · · Score: 1

      Agreed.

      And yes, that was comma-riffic.

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    6. Re:You're either a stooge or you don't understand. by Teto · · Score: 1

      Maybe they're tired of people who have so little time on their hands that they feel as if pointing out an obvious mistake and making a huge issue out of it is their duty.

      Shut up. If you think you can do better, go make your own website. If you think their lazy and don't care about the readers, don't visit. Nothing is keeping you here.

      In short, Go stick your dick in the cpu fan.

    7. Re:You're either a stooge or you don't understand. by Pussy+Is+Money · · Score: 0
      You don't understand. When it is convenient for Slashdot, they call themselves a "news service", so they can act as "journalists".

      When somebody holds them to journalistic standards however, suddenly Slashdot is a nothing more than a "discussion service", and you are sent your merry way.

      So it goes I guess.

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    8. Re:You're either a stooge or you don't understand. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But come on, it's not really an ERROR. It's a duplicate. Ignore it. What would really be bad if there were real errors, like wrong facts, misleading statements etc. Also not that some people (like me) might have missed the first story, so it's not completely useless. Apart from that, slashdot being their job does not necessarily make it being their life. Is your job your life?

  16. My correlation by zoombah · · Score: 0

    Not to be a troll, but slashdot posts are like linux kernel releases - they're rapid, but aren't very well polished, and ocasionally major bugs like this (duplicates) are present.

  17. TMI! by Exmet+Paff+Daxx · · Score: 5, Funny

    y T: Sorry, it's a duplicate. The lashing has begun.


    Tim, thanks for letting us know that this is a duplicate story. We're still all excited about the improved relay times that this will enable; for a lot of us it means that when we play Quake on Russian servers, someday we'll actually be able to see the rocket that hit us. Kind of like your Slashback feature, this will let us discuss what we've learned about this topic in the last few days.

    I think, however, that as far as the lashing goes, that's a little TMI. What you guys do behind closed doors is, really, your own business.

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  18. boy this is old by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    REEEPOSTTTTT

  19. Aw, cut them some slack... by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 1

    Just kidding, what? you expect them to read their own site?

    God! That would, be like, oh I don't know, Hotmail actually using Win2k for anything other than "Windows dressing", and leaving BSD at the back end (IIRC, mind you).

    I just chalk it up to the fact they are too busy rejecting all my articles...paranoid, me? Nah.
    HEY! What was that soun...

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  20. This deserves re-iteration! by dbuttric · · Score: 1

    I think that this story is so cool, that a repost is not necessarily a bad thing.

    Thanks for reminding us this amazing, wonderful and powerful advance in technology.

    Personally, I get so inured reading stuff, that I sometimes forget how damn cool some of these stories really are. Hearing them again is not necessarily a bad thing.

    Oh yeah, its also not a bad thing to thank people for working hard, faux pas or not.

    Thanks Slashdot.

  21. Hey! Hey! by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 1

    it it happens happens to to the the best best of of us us.

    I'm suprised no one got a double first post on this subject...that would be a record...and rather pathetic, quite possibly.

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  22. Re:Repost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    If the number was indeed 3, yeah, but there are more than a dozen "this is a repost" posts.

    BTW, this is a repost, check http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/22/204235 .

  23. Its Alright Tim by Cylix · · Score: 2

    Why Timothy it is still a great day.

    We won't be so hard on you anymore! We of course have the new guy to pick on.

    We are all just waiting for Chrisd to slip up so that we might flame him to a cinder.

    Rest easy young Tim, you are no longer a slashdot boy, you are a slashdot man! ;)

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  24. Reposts not a problem. Acting as a news service is by Pussy+Is+Money · · Score: 0
    I don't care about the reposts. Why would anyone care? Nobody is forcing you to read Slashdot.

    That said, I think what is so bad about all of this is that Slashdot claims to be a news service -- but when you hold them to journalistic standards, suddenly they're nothing more but a discussion service. It's pretty hypocritical and I can understand why people might get fussed about it.

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  25. Do you guys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...read your own fscking site?! How hard is it for Slashdot article posters to recognize duplicates?!

  26. Guess what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    yhbt. yhl. hand.

  27. Skynet coming online.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "The Skynet funding bill passed... Skynet went online August 4th, 1997 and became self-aware on August 29th"

  28. fucking slut by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    jesus christ. do you not read your own fucking website?