Re: [PLUG] OT: 7 minutes of terror, Curiosity landing on Mars 01:30 EDT Monday

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 20:35:03 -0400
> From: Walt Mankowski<waltman@pobox.com>

On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 08:29:55PM -0400, Nicholas Gasparovich wrote:
> As long as Mars has FIOS, then I'm all aboard, lol

> It does, but the lag sucks.:)

Well yeah, but don't they have Vinton Cerf (and others) working on that 
[1]?  Damn the physics, he'll figure it out...  :-)  (Actually,  I 
suspect modern versions of uucp (rsync-ified) and various other async 
protocols to emerge.  NTP & IRC will be--errr--interesting, while SMTP 
will be more-or-less unaffected (sort-of). :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinton_Cerf

Later,
JP
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