From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 10:08:54 MDT
On Sunday, July 14, 2002 5:54 AM Anders Sandberg asa@nada.kth.se wrote:
> The lag is around 15 minutes. This rules out web surfing and using
most
> Earth sites interactively.
That lag is not so important so much as the degradation in bandwidth.
Yes, it does make the experience less interactive, though with, say, web
surfing on cached sites (one could cache all sites at different points
in solar system or just a significant subset (e.g., highly visited ones,
highly relevant ones, ones that don't change often or at all)) would be
no different. I'd be more worried about loss of bandwidth. You might
not, e.g., be able to download Flash movies and such, since these would
be more costly. Even so, I don't think this would damn a Martian web to
obsolescence.
It would make Mars less than ideal in this one respect, but that's not
as important, IMHO, as the overall picture.
Even so, I see settling Mars as at best merely a merely to draw humans
and posthumans into space -- rather than as an end in itself. I take
George Zebrowski's line here about planets being deadends -- short of
some radical change such as Smart's Transcension actually occurring.
BTW, has anyone here looked into the internet protocols for the ISS and
other space missions? Maybe we could just extrapolate here...
Cheers!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/MyWorksBySubject.html
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