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The Interplanetary Internet
Roland Piquepaille writes "This article from SPACE.com about the Interplanetary Internet (IPN) is not science fiction. It is becoming a reality, Rich Gray reports. "The IPN would form a backbone connecting a series of hubs on or around planets, ships, and at other points in space. These hubs would provide high-capacity, high-availability Internet traffic over distances that could stretch up to hundreds of millions of miles." Gray adds that all the planets and satellites in our solar system have already Internet addresses and that NASA is already communicating with its earth-orbiting missions through its internal Deep Space Network. The rest of us will have to wait until at least 2005 when IPN-equipped satellites are launched. Check this column for more details. You also can read a previous Slashdot column on the same subject.
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That's what we should be spending money on. There are so few needy causes here on terra firma.
You can guess that I'm fairly anti-american, yes.
And this is serious.
My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And
So, how much SPAM will be needed to take out the system?
Ideally, it may be a good idea to tightly regulate what gets on that network. Filter out the Spam, popups, and various other ads that would eat up the bandwidth
Fear is the enemy; the one true enemy. {Sun Tzu-The Art of War}
so now i can get offers to enlarge my penis, buy cheap viagra, meet some hooker, buy my next vacation, etc.. from a martian? the internet is fast becoming a marketing/advertising wasteland. when are we going to be traveling to the planets anyways? funny, i just watched 2001 a space odyssey last night again, I was laughing about the phone calls in space, but the internet in space? now the astronauts will have new ways to really waste time. it's sad really, I don't understand why we as a civilization can't put our differences aside and travel the stars. I wish I'd been born two or three hundred years from now.
...so the Slashdot "FP!" crowd can be sending in stragglers for hours.
Noone has EVER told me I sound french.
This is an insult/offence with an impact I can't
put in words. The frenchmen are our enemy since,
well, long.
And wrt the rest of your comment: get a life.
I have enough free stuff, including an open
source operating system from Canada.
My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And