NASA uses laser to send video of a cat named Taters over 19 million miles
NASA uses laser to send video of a cat named Taters over 19 million miles
NASA, working to send high-bandwidth video and data from deep space to Earth, transmitted a video of a cat named Taters as part of an experiment.
What’s Taters, precious?
95 0 ReplySpoil em, flash em, laser out a few.
39 0 ReplyDamn, beat me to it
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Using a laser they could just as well send the cat. He would follow the laser just as well.
69 0 ReplyGuess what the cat is doing in the video
25 0 ReplyTaxes?
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Video beamed. Video intercepted by aliens. Think cats rule earth.
They're right.
65 0 ReplyThey'd have to be really close. This doesn't even get close to Mars or Venus.
5 0 ReplyThey are.
whistles x-files theme
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So correct.
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What strikes me is not the bandwidth achieved but the precision of the technology to aim the laser. 19 million miles is a great distance to successfully aim a beam of light. As this technology develops, real time communications with objects in orbit like around Mars will be possible.
41 0 ReplyWell realtime is just not true. But cool technology nonetheless.
40 0 ReplyI'm wondering if we will need to tweak our Internet protocols to include interplanetary time? I would imagine mirroring would be much more important. Because light can only go so fast.
11 0 ReplyYes, the high latency and intermittent connectivity is a big challenge. Delay tolerant networking (DTN) is one good way of solving this problem.
13 0 ReplyI'm sure several OSI layers have already been modified by NASA to suit their needs. But, the protocols will pretty much remain standard.
3 0 ReplyI think the issue, again will be date and time.
DDMMYYYY + Planet + Orbit?
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The beam is reeeealy wide by the time it gets there. Still a great achivement, though.
10 0 ReplyI presume that we're not yet concerned with what the Ansible tech awoke in the vast emptiness between, hmm?
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Despite transmitting from millions of miles away, it was able to send the video faster than most broadband internet connections
That guy must be a Spectrum subscriber
31 0 Reply"We're receiving coherent signals from the edge of the Milky Way."
"Life can exist in such isolation? What are they saying, do they need rescue?"
"It's a video of a small fuzzy animal."
"What?"
"When we probed deeper to get more context, we found millions of such videos, supposedly they're cherished non-intelligient companions and the people there wished to express that."
"...
...
What?"
24 0 ReplyThis strikes me with a "They're made of meat?!" vibe.
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The article isn't terribly long, but here is the direct link to Taters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvJtVOmFs5Q
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8 0 ReplyThank goodness for "this is a test". For a moment I was panicking about an invasion of space cats and their terrifying laser hunting capabilities.
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The MCRN & UNN would be proud.
18 0 ReplySomewhere on my work wiki is a picture of puppies that I sent over SWIFT to a bank to test that the relationship was setup properly.
Cats and dogs are always acceptable test messages
13 0 ReplyThis tracks
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This is the correct use of technology. (But later let's test the ping on Doom over laserlan)
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Taters is very precious!!
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"What's Taters?"
"Po-ta-toes... Boil um mash um stick um in a stew!"
7 0 ReplyTaters, star surfer
6 0 ReplyThat is cute. But why a cat?
2 0 ReplyBecause cute
9 0 ReplyRight. I guess I kinda agree.
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Joke answer: It's cute.
Real answer: It's cute and because of that broad appeal it's easy good PR. NASA has to appeal to the populace to hope they demand their Representatives properly fund them.
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Taters should have his own wikipedia page. First outer space cat video.
2 0 ReplyEverything's fun and games until the Kilrathi discover this and its point of origin.
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