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How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light

Posted by Unknown on from the tiny-wormholes-of-course dept.

higuita writes "With faster technologies showing up everyday, people need to prepare in advance the problems of faster-than-light communication. The main problem is that packages will arrive to the destination before they are sent, forcing a huge redesign of most protocols. Read here the first draft RFC. Any network expert is free to help fine tune this draft."

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  1. April fools again? by donscarletti · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there some tradition in some parts of the world to make an ass of oneself on the second of April too?

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    1. Re: April fools again? by Nodsnarb · · Score: 5, Funny

      There's a world outside the United States? Do they have Baconaise too?

    2. Re: April fools again? by WGFCrafty · · Score: 4, Funny

      And chocolate flavored pigs. Yes, the holy grail of genetics

    3. Re:April fools again? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's still 1/4 in the states.

      Well, no. In the states it's 4/1.

      All of Europe should be on 2/4 by now though.

      See, if the US switched to metric, we wouldn't have these miscommunications...

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    4. Re:April fools again? by isorox · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's still 1/4 in the states.

      Well, no. In the states it's 4/1.

      All of Europe should be on 2/4 by now though.

      See, if the US switched to metric, we wouldn't have these miscommunications...

      I can believe FTL communication, even FTL travel, but the US moving to metric? April fools are meant to be believable.

    5. Re:April fools again? by servognome · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't you mean 7 Gigapeople us metric?

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  2. Use FTL to request the RFC... by tokencode · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think we should just use FTL to request the RFC in its future state.

  3. i don't get it. by milkmage · · Score: 3, Funny

    we all know you arrive in the states before you leave Japan... and we've had subspace communication since the 60's (I saw it on TV). don't skip drones pretty much make this moot anyway?

    what's the problem?

  4. Re:Might be fast but by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Relativity is a mind fuck.

    I think ...

    you're holding it wrong.

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  5. Not to worry, I will have written the protocols by raymorris · · Score: 4, Funny

    When we have FTL communication in which packets arrive before they are sent, I will have written the needed protocols in 2010. I'll start them in 2016, complete them in 2010, and finish compatibilty testing in 2009. That'll let Microsoft implement them in 2057.