April 17, 2001

5:27 PM

The Martian Internet
This is a cover-eyes-and-post post: NASA has made it a goal to improve telecommunications in deep space. This is good since I would hate to get up to my lunar base, and not be able to check e-mail. For a while, it will probably be Arpanet-level bandwidth. Just when we master this whole optical fatpipe stuff, they redraw the amount of territory an ideal network should cover.
posted by rschram (1 comment total)

At least five years ago a friend of mine applied for ".mars" and, officially, it's still undecided.
posted by NortonDC at 6:35 PM on April 17, 2001