An Interplanetary Internet? What the…?
I went to a short talk today by this guy from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory about the interplanetary internet that they’re building. It’ll let them communicate with all their space probes and such through a series of orbiting satellites and ground stations on nearby planets, using regular internet protocols. The best part about this is that ground crew here doesn’t have to wait for specific windows to open to send and receive information from spacecraft; they simply send it out on the internet and let it transmit it around through the various routers until it gets to the destination. Pretty neat stuff. Can’t wait until I see voyager12.jpl.nasa.gov in my site logs for the first time.
If you have a fat connection and a reasonably fast computer, go check out the Final Fantasy movie trailer. It’s incredible what they can do with CG these days. Specifically, watch out for the close-up of the girl’s eye, and the space guy that takes his helmet off at the end. Incredible.
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