Building the Interplanetary Internet 334
sighted writes "Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, now a Google VP, is leading a NASA effort to create a permanent network link to Mars within the next two years. As Cerf outlined in a recent talk, the 'InterPlaNet' protocol is designed to handle the delay caused by interplanetary distances. A signal traveling between the Earth and Mars can take up to 20 minutes."
I guess astronauts..... (Score:3, Funny)
Screw that (Score:4, Funny)
From Ask Slashdot 2027 (Score:5, Funny)
Ping (Score:5, Funny)
So P2P now means planet-2-planet ;) (Score:5, Funny)
IP Over Astronaut Avian Carriers w/Jetpack? (Score:2, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carrie
Adeptus
Re:From Ask Slashdot 2027 (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck online... come on down to Lab 6 and play for real!
-Andrew Hackman
Union Aerospace Corporation
20 minutes! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So P2P now means planet-2-planet ;) (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Priorities (Score:4, Funny)
That's why no work is getting done in my office right now.
Re:From Ask Slashdot 2027 (Score:4, Funny)
What you need is a good old fashioned tachon transmitter/reciever. They send signals faster than light, and best of all, the faster the signal, the lower the energy required.
You'll need the nVidia 88800000 GPU card.... (Score:4, Funny)
Reply from the Martian MPAA... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Screw that (Score:5, Funny)
It's worth the wait, dude, trust me. If you like what you see in Tokyo or Bangkok, just wait until you see the freaky shit out of Mars.
Re:Screw that (Score:3, Funny)
InterPlaNet? (Score:4, Funny)
Sweet! Amazon Women on the moon! (Score:3, Funny)
More lawsuits (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ob Sealab 2021 (Score:2, Funny)
I can see it now... (Score:5, Funny)
From: Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac
Utopia Planitia Law Firm
Legal Practitioners
Mars.
Confidential Proposal/Investment Assistance.
Greetings and love to you in the name of the most high Xenu from my beloved planet Mars. I am sorry and I solicit your permission into your privacy. I am Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac, lawyer to the late Prince Grunthor eldest son of the late former Emperor of Mars late Warlord Xandor.
My former client late Prince Grunthor died in a plane crash in the year 2094. Upon the death of my former client and unknown to the family that is currently under house arrest and undergoing prosecution in the hands of the present administration as a result of human right violation and looting of the planet's treasury by the late head of state Warlord Xandor.
Before the death of my client he had deposited 90,000,000.00 Martian Mega-bucks with a secret security firm in two trunk boxes in my name, and I am the only authority to this fund which he was to transfer off world few days after he died in a plane crash.
This fund was deposited with the security firm in my name because my client stole this fund from the planet's treasury and he did not want anyone to know that he is associated with the fund in question not until the fund is successfully moved off world.
The security firm does not know the actual content of the trunk boxes, my client and I told them that the boxes contains old Martian artifacts to be delivered to a client off world via Interplanetary Courier Services. For now it is only you and I that is having knowledge of this fund, and the only assistance I require from you is to help me receive this fund in either Amsterdam, London or Spain depending on our country of agreement and possibly invest it abroad in your area of advice.
This fund shall be disbursed accordingly as follows: 25% for the recipient (you) from the total sum(90MMMB). 2% for the courier officer in the country where you shall receive the trunk boxes. 5% set aside from the entire sum for expenses incurred by both parties in due course of executing this transaction (home and abroad). 68% for me.
If you are not satisfied with the percentage sharing of the fund feel free to let me know. In compliance with this you are to immediately forward to me by mail the following: Your full names and address Confidential space phone and space fax numbers.
With this information I will immediately commence all necessary documentation for a successful shipment of the first trunk box to your country of choice as all the modalities have already been worked out by me. I will also give you full details of this whole transaction which I have already perfected in due course.
Please note that you are to treat this with utmost confidentiality willing or not willing to assist me in this transaction as nobody knows about this fund and I am still an active lawyer in this country.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS, IF I WERE YOU I WOULD, BECAUSE IT WILL COST YOU LITTLE OR NOTHING TO ACHIEVE THIS AND THE BENEFIT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER.
Remain blessed in the name of XENU.
Yours faithfully Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac
Re:From Ask Slashdot 2027 (Score:5, Funny)
Give it a try it only needs 640 terabytes of ram.
Re:From Ask Slashdot 2027 (Score:2, Funny)
Mars aint no place to raise kids. In fact, its as cold as hell. And all that math, they don't understand.
Don't underestimate... (Score:4, Funny)
Ticket #2027.2.22.45789 (Score:1, Funny)
It sounds like your system is reverting to radio frequency transmission, you need to get your QEM up and running correctly before you can play real time. Didn't you RTFM?
Do you have your QEM (quantum entanglement modulator) correctly connected? Is it plugged in?
Go from the K symbol to Utilities to Hardware. Now, see if you can find if your QEM has been detected by your system. If not, you are doing to have to download the driver from Sourceforge the old-fashioned way. You can use this time for a snack break. The connection will take 35 minutes to set up day, at our current distance. And then you have the download to wait for.
Once you have it, you will have to open a terminal and type
Assuming you have no dependency issues, it should install. At this point, you need to reboot.
During the start-up screen, look to see if it loads correctly and your QEM is correctly identified.
When you are fully booted, you need to go to K ->Utilities->QEMConfig, and follow the wizard carefully. This is important. If you do not follow the directions exactly, you may end up sending information into the past when you try to use your InterPlaNet connection. This has been known to happen from time to time. Some historical researchers have found that some of these incidents were taken as April Fool's jokes back on Earth in the old days. You really don't want to do that, it is embarrassing.
Ok, if that doesn't work, call again.
Goodbye.
Re:I guess astronauts..... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:From Ask Slashdot 2027 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:From Ask Slashdot 2027 (Score:4, Funny)
"A spooky action has occurred. Cancel or allow?"