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Building the Interplanetary Internet

Posted by kdawson on from the ping-and-wait dept.

sighted writes "Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, now a Google VP, is leading a NASA effort to create a permanent network link to Mars within the next two years. As Cerf outlined in a recent talk, the 'InterPlaNet' protocol is designed to handle the delay caused by interplanetary distances. A signal traveling between the Earth and Mars can take up to 20 minutes."

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  1. Re:Ping by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, guy. "Sol" is not the name of Earth's sun, in spite of linguistic etymology.

    I named it "Freeda" last year. And no, that's not a misspelling.

    It's true. Earth is in orbit around the sun Freeda.

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  2. Re:From Ask Slashdot 2027 by Grave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Possibly the greatest off-topic on-topic post on Slashdot ever.

    Possibly.