Our Galaxy Has at Least 100 Billion Planets, Study Shows

Re:Our Galaxy Has at Least 100 Billion Planets, Study Shows by dolbz on Thursday January 12, 2012 @06:44AM (#3455970)

> Sure it'll have a 50 year latency, but we could easily stream all of youtube (or the entire internet really) to them

Well Eric Schmidt who's probably in a better position to estimate than most, said that Google estimates the internet is made up of 5 million terabytes.

5 million terabytes / 10gbps = 126.8 years

and I very much doubt 10gbps is even remotely achievable over interstellar distances. I don't what kind of data rates are achievable but I would expect it to be extremely slow relative to Gigabit speeds.

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Re:Our Galaxy Has at Least 100 Billion Planets, Study Shows by michaelcampbell on Thursday January 12, 2012 @07:45AM (#3456116)

I imagine by the time we find extra terrestrial intelligence, 10gbps will be childs play. I HOPE we find some way to use entanglement as a communications mechanism by then, although I don't know if that's even possible.

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Re:Our Galaxy Has at Least 100 Billion Planets, Study Shows by MPSimmons on Thursday January 12, 2012 @10:49AM (#3456695)

Or we could, you know, use more than one channel.

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