Current Events > Will internet in space ever be a thing?

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Like when we colonize the entire solar system can there ever be a single solar system wide internet? Could people on 2 different planets send emails or even play a game?

no and we'll never land a human on another planet.

Satellite internet is a thing, they have an internet connection on the ISS
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I think that eventually, it will. But for a while, every planet will have its own Internet.
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Space porn
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"Lag on this is terrible, I think the guy playing as Zangief is on Neptune."

Sending emails or anything else non time sensitive could be done.

You could probably play a slow turn based game like chess over the course of hours to days depending on how far you were from each other (for example, earth and mars are like 5-20 mins away in terms of a light speed signal depending on their orbital positions)

A solar system wide internet would probably have local servers caching most of the information at each settled planet/station for quicker access, and updates would happen periodically between worlds
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ArchiePeck posted...

"Lag on this is terrible, I think the guy playing as Zangief is on Neptune."

Rotfl!!!!!

Pitlord_Special posted...

Sending emails or anything else non time sensitive could be done.

You could probably play a slow turn based game like chess over the course of hours to days depending on how far you were from each other (for example, earth and mars are like 5-20 mins away in terms of a light speed signal depending on their orbital positions)

A solar system wide internet would probably have local servers caching most of the information at each settled planet/station for quicker access, and updates would happen periodically between worlds

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