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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by staunch on Thursday July 23, 2015 @01:56PM (#9937379)
I hope they were recording the whole time and upload the videos to YouTube. I can't wait to watch Hannibal on the Pyrenees From Space.mp4
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by qq66 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:02PM (#9937412)
You'll have to wait 6000 years to see it on YouTube: 1500 for them to hear about YouTube and 4500 for them to upload (assuming TCP)
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by a3n on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:52PM (#9937732)
It would go faster if they loaded a bunch of usb sticks in a station wagon and shot the wagon across space.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by qq66 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:14PM (#9939315)
Only if they can average 0.25c, which seems unlikely :)
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by Zelphyr on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:22PM (#9937522)
Sheesh. I can't believe after 6000 years TCP is still in use.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by angersock on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:33PM (#9937606)
At least 25% of it will be over IPv6!
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by rogeryu on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:57PM (#9938099)
> At least 25% of it will be over IPv6!

We probably will need IPv10 to connect all the dots in the sky!

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by tempestn on Thursday July 23, 2015 @05:07PM (#9938523)
Actually no! Estimates I found are of around 10^23 stars in the universe. There are over 10^38 IPv6 addresses, so even if there were tens of inhabitable worlds per star and billions or even trillions of addresses per world, we'd have enough! (Although it is possible that stars number is a significant underestimate.)
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by p1mrx on Thursday July 23, 2015 @09:11PM (#9939525)
IPv6 only has space for 10^19 networks, so you would need to heavily chop up /64s if you wanted to number the universe.

But IP is not designed for high-latency networks, so this only really matters if FTL communication is invented.

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by catshirt on Thursday July 23, 2015 @11:52PM (#9940030)
Internet of Stars™
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by xg15 on Friday July 24, 2015 @04:37AM (#9940752)
Maybe even as much as 26%, who knows...
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by rm_-rf_slash on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:22PM (#9937525)
That might be the funniest thing I've ever read on HN.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by esolyt on Thursday July 23, 2015 @07:58PM (#9939253)
For a second I thought I was on reddit.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by joshmn on Friday July 24, 2015 @12:57AM (#9940179)
I was beginning to think we collectively lost our sense of humor.

There is hope. Now quick, someone post a cat pic and a relevant gif.

Edit: Not complaining about the downvotes, but guys, this is the internet, not work. Loosen up. Smile for once. It's good for you, and confuses people.

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by tatterdemalion on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:37PM (#9937637)
It seems like UDP is probably a better protocol for this use case.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by ryangittins on Thursday July 23, 2015 @04:40PM (#9938365)
I've got a really good joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by mratzloff on Thursday July 23, 2015 @05:33PM (#9938672)
That's fine. I've got a great joke about TCP, and I'll just keep telling it to you until you get it. I'll just speak slower each time...
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by lucaspottersky on Thursday July 23, 2015 @05:54PM (#9938754)
ROFLMAO I got it, I got it... so I think I'm TCP? :P
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by fao_ on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:42PM (#9938000)
Until a gamma beam disrupts the connection and you miss the best part, that is!
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by xjia on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:46PM (#9937697)
no redirect to https?
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by Falcon9 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:00PM (#9937400)
My favorite thought is that they've sent probes millions of years ago and we could send a request to watch some HD surveillance of dinosaurs roaming the Earth. It'll just take ~3k years to receive the requested footage.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by anon4 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:14PM (#9937483)
Not if you board a spaceship and travel to them at close to light speed! Then you, personally, would just wait a few hours.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by raphaelj on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:02PM (#9939265)
You're right about the idea, but a few hours is way too short, because of how the Human body tolerance to strong accelerations.

Assuming an acceleration of 10 m/s^2 (similar to Earth's gravity), it will takes roughly one year to accelerate to a speed close to the speed of light were relativistic effects occurs, and you will need one more year to decelerate.

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by 33W on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:20PM (#9937879)
Once again, it will be easier to bring people to the data, than data to people.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by manachar on Thursday July 23, 2015 @04:06PM (#9938161)
Hannibal lived 247 – 183/182/181 BC. That's a few hundred years earlier than 615 AD.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by rolilink_ on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:15PM (#9937847)
do they have a pirate bay?
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