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NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet
hcg50a writes "NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. The store-and-forward protocol was designed by NASA in consultation with Vint Cerf. Here's a discussion from last July before the test began."
lolcats in space!
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
5th post
Would sub-space internet radio broadcasts be subject to a DRM?
...and route around event horizons.
Space Porn!!!
The previous technique of interplanetary messenger pigeons was obviously lobbied against by PETA as a disgusting abuse of animals.
I can market my CHEEP VAIGRA and ATHENTIC ROLLEX WATCH to the Vogons.
Revenge will be mine!
I record my sleeptalking
CLANWARS_PUBLIC#1 LAVAPIT-BIG UDP 56
LOL-GIBBERISHED OH!NOSHIT_ctf UDP 68
PLAYTIME.DOT.UK DM_HOLYGROUNDS UDP 254
FRAGFEST_REDPLANET DM_HELLHOLE UDP 2,139,442
Ping of 2 MILLION? WTF ?!?
I agree, this is very exciting news in terms of internet devel- *error: connection dropped*
then what will we call a communication protocol that works well between stars
Interstellar?
I don't need to test my programs.. I have an error correcting modem.
We already have a working _global_ _worldwide_ _free_ network based on store-and-forward protocols.
It's called FIDONet. It's almost dead now, but it was very alive during early 90-s before the advent of cheap Internet.
Kids...
We shall, respectfully, remove ourselves from your lawn.
We already have a working _global_ _worldwide_ _free_ network based on store-and-forward protocols.
It's called FIDONet. It's almost dead now, but it was very alive during early 90-s before the advent of cheap Internet.
Kids...
The best thing is if NASA used FIDONet think of the money they'd save by only sending messages to Deep Space at 3am when the tolls are cheapest!
Same problem :)
I'm seriously thinking about FireFox extension which will stop opening new Wikipedia links after 20-30 minutes of reading Wikipedia pages.
Don't worry, everybody.
The rest of the post will come within the hour. Or maybe next week.
I think Microsoft may have been considering the scope of this problem for a long time. They stopped the hubristic practice of naming "guaranteed unique" identifiers as UUIDs (Universally Unique IDentifiers) and started referring to them as GUIDs (Globally Unique IDentifiers.)
Why would they change horses in the middle of the race, with all the expense of changing documentation, supporting two naming systems, and all of the resultant confusion, unless there was a reason to not refer to them as "Universal"?
OK, maybe it's because they were trying to "embrace, extend, and extinguish" the RFC defining UUIDs. But I'd prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt, and say that they were "forward thinking", looking at the problems of networking in space.
BWA HA HA HA! Sorry, I couldn't keep a straight face for that last bit.
John
If you ever get those kids off your lawn, I may be willing to pay big dollars for the right to put a giant baseball mitt there.
African, European, or Alien swallows?
(assuming that the airspeed velocity is irrelevant here...)