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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by farmdve on Sunday March 17, 2024 @07:20AM (#39733634)
It will. It always will, no technology on Earth now or likely in the future allow this to change. The only thing that will change is bandwidth or how much data can be sent at once.
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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by thfuran on Sunday March 17, 2024 @10:59AM (#39734879)
Yes, and that changes how long you have to wait for a fixed amount of data to arrive, especially when transmission windows are narrow and sufficiently low bandwidth would mean having to waste time waiting between several.
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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by mewpmewp2 on Sunday March 17, 2024 @05:07PM (#39738055)
But the delay will always be significant either way.
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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by thfuran on Monday March 18, 2024 @09:16AM (#39744005)
No, the minimum delay is no more than a few minutes time of flight. But the transmission windows are only a few minutes long and they're hours apart. If you can't finish in one, you need to wait hours more to resume transmitting.
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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by mewpmewp2 on Monday March 18, 2024 @07:28PM (#39751309)
> the minimum delay is no more than a few minutes time of flight

And how is that not significant?

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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by rasz on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:22AM (#39735052)
In time we might find ways to glitch the simulation.
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