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Boiglenoight ,

Everything’s fun and games until the Kilrathi discover this and its point of origin.

DigitalFrank ,

Taters should have his own wikipedia page. First outer space cat video.

Ajsra ,
@Ajsra@lemmy.ml avatar

That is cute. But why a cat?

Sanyanov ,

Because cute

Ajsra ,
@Ajsra@lemmy.ml avatar

Right. I guess I kinda agree.

Promethiel ,
@Promethiel@lemmy.world avatar

Joke answer: It’s cute.

Real answer: It’s cute and because of that broad appeal it’s easy good PR. NASA has to appeal to the populace to hope they demand their Representatives properly fund them.

MeatPilot ,
@MeatPilot@lemmy.world avatar

“What’s Taters?”

“Po-ta-toes… Boil um mash um stick um in a stew!”

doctorcrimson ,

“We’re receiving coherent signals from the edge of the Milky Way.”

“Life can exist in such isolation? What are they saying, do they need rescue?”

“It’s a video of a small fuzzy animal.”

“What?”

“When we probed deeper to get more context, we found millions of such videos, supposedly they’re cherished non-intelligient companions and the people there wished to express that.”

“…

…

What?”

NegativeInf ,

This strikes me with a “They’re made of meat?!” vibe.

whoisearth , (edited )
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

Somewhere on my work wiki is a picture of puppies that I sent over SWIFT to a bank to test that the relationship was setup properly.

Cats and dogs are always acceptable test messages

Evil_Shrubbery ,
  1. This is the correct use of technology. (But later let’s test the ping on Doom over laserlan)
  2. Taters is very precious!!
Michal ,

Using a laser they could just as well send the cat. He would follow the laser just as well.

Rapidcreek OP ,

Guess what the cat is doing in the video

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Taxes?

z00s ,

Faster than light travel achieved

dhork ,

Despite transmitting from millions of miles away, it was able to send the video faster than most broadband internet connections

That guy must be a Spectrum subscriber

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

This tracks

circuscritic ,

The MCRN & UNN would be proud.

paddirn ,

Can’t wait til we can start watching interplanetary wars play out in real time.

circuscritic , (edited )

Pretty sure it won’t be in real time with all the light delay.

baltakatei ,

Can we have space settlement without the war and genocide? It’s not like killing Indians and robbing trains is a fundamental requirement.

circuscritic ,

That depends on if space is colonized by homo sapiens, or by an evolved form of ants, who rise up millions of years after humans have gone extinct.

The civilization that evolved from ants possibly could.

Humans? Doubtful.

Sconrad122 ,

You are giving ants way too much credit. Those fuckers are brutal war criminals, the lot of them. Humans are bad, but we’ve had nukes for almost 80 years without glassing ourselves, ants wouldn’t last a day

circuscritic , (edited )

No, because I’m assuming that one colony will wipe out the rest and earth will be ruled by the hereditary line of matriarchs of whatever the queen ant evolves into.

They’ll probably enslave and brutalize all other species on the planet, but they’ll rule earth as a single unified colony, and space as an extension of that.

Promethiel ,
@Promethiel@lemmy.world avatar

They need to be harnessed into biological CPUs by hyper-advanced dog sized jumping spiders. It’s the only use for those murderous six legged maniacs.

Rapidcreek OP ,

What strikes me is not the bandwidth achieved but the precision of the technology to aim the laser. 19 million miles is a great distance to successfully aim a beam of light. As this technology develops, real time communications with objects in orbit like around Mars will be possible.

mesamunefire ,

I’m wondering if we will need to tweak our Internet protocols to include interplanetary time? I would imagine mirroring would be much more important. Because light can only go so fast.

Rapidcreek OP ,

I’m sure several OSI layers have already been modified by NASA to suit their needs. But, the protocols will pretty much remain standard.

ooterness ,

Yes, the high latency and intermittent connectivity is a big challenge. Delay tolerant networking (DTN) is one good way of solving this problem.

Doorbook ,

I think the issue, again will be date and time.

DDMMYYYY + Planet + Orbit?

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

UTC and forget

itslilith ,
@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

software developers are seething

Restaldt ,

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/InterPlanetary_File_System

SirHery ,

Well realtime is just not true. But cool technology nonetheless.

Rapidcreek OP ,

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    paholg ,

    It’s really not at these scales. Earth and Mars go from roughly 4 light minutes apart to over 20.

    At the best case, saying something and then waiting 8 minutes for a response is hardly what I’d call “real time”.

    Martineski ,
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    Speed of light is insanely slow at the cosmic scale.

    circuscritic ,

    No, it’s not slow, at all. It’s the speed of light.

    Unfortunately for us humans, we are a relatively fast form of life, when compared against the scale of our solar system, much less our galaxy, even when communicating at the speed of light.

    Rosco ,

    It’s the fastest speed information can go through space, as far as we know. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of space. And a mean a LOT.

    gens ,

    The beam is reeeealy wide by the time it gets there. Still a great achivement, though.

    littlebluespark ,
    @littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

    I presume that we’re not yet concerned with what the Ansible tech awoke in the vast emptiness between, hmm?

    Talaraine ,
    @Talaraine@kbin.social avatar

    Video beamed. Video intercepted by aliens. Think cats rule earth.

    They're right.

    samus12345 ,
    @samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

    They’d have to be really close. This doesn’t even get close to Mars or Venus.

    darelik ,

    They are.

    whistles x-files theme

    Evil_Shrubbery ,

    So correct.

    quams69 ,

    Taters, star surfer

    CatZoomies ,
    @CatZoomies@lemmy.world avatar

    What’s Taters, precious?

    gravitas_deficiency ,

    Damn, beat me to it

    kambusha ,

    Spoil em, flash em, laser out a few.

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