Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away in NASA Test

Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by dotnet00 on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:47AM (#39735238)

I disagree, long term I think we'd have at least a significant portion of internet data synchronized between the two. Of course early on it'd probably just be in the form of certain popular entertainment sources and informational resources being periodically uploaded from Earth, more akin to a Plex or Invidious server and Wikipedia backup for Mars.

But as the size of a colony grows, it just makes more and more sense to sync up as much data as possible. Eg a YouTube Mars which downlinks ahead of time trending videos + videos from people subscribed to by Martians + videos the algorithm thinks Martians will like and uplinks the same stuff for Earth.

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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by thfuran on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:57AM (#39735326)

Some very small subset is perhaps plausible, but I think you're overestimating how much Google or Netflix would care about addressing a small and inconvenient market.

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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by sneak on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:09PM (#39735980)

A major self-sustaining colony on Mars will probably take 50-100 years, at which point Google as well as its current jurisdiction of registration (Delaware) will likely both be history.

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Re:Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away... by thfuran on Sunday March 17, 2024 @02:26PM (#39736695)

Self-sustaining? I think that's far enough out that is basically pointless to speculate a deadline. It would require too many breakthroughs.

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