Last month, while I was busy focusing on nothing but movies(trailers), science was busy amazing the crap out of the world with their innovations.
NASA has finished its first deep-space test of what could become an ‘interplanetary internet’. The new networking commands could one day be used to automatically relay information between Earth, spacecraft, and astronauts, without the need for humans to schedule transmissions at each point.
Spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit usually communicate directly with Earth – the first to do so through an intermediary were the Mars Explorations Rovers, which launched in 2003. The Spirit and Opportunity rovers transmit data to orbiters, which then send the data back to Earth.
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A new method would automate and streamline this process by sending data through an interplanetary ‘internet’. Just as data is sent from one point to another on the internet via a linked network of hubs, or nodes, spacecraft scattered throughout the solar system could be used as nodes to transmit data through space.
Do you know what this means, people?! The future world as depicted in Cowboy Bebop, is becoming a legitimate jam session.
The Cortex will be a reality. At the speed of thought we will send waves across the system of Sol. The truth of the signal will be spread far and wide. Even the likes of the puppet theater will be forced to admit, “You can’t stop the signal.”
(via new scientists, grinding.be)
