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The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet

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Re: The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet

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Post by agildehaus »

mytochar wrote: post #10

150ms is an incredible number, and the volume of satellites required will also increase bandwidth. This seems like a good situation to be in all around. I hope he succeeds at this work.

SpaceX has suggested around 20 ms latency with 4000 satellites offering near-gigabit speeds. Nothing but promises and a billion Google bucks right now, but I'm also hoping he succeeds. That'd be amazing.

The fun part of his is that its supposed to fund his Mars ventures and be SpaceX's experience for putting a similar network around Mars.

If it pans out, even in 2-3x his expected timeframe, I'll be the happiest geek alive.

Re: The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet

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Post by LiweiZ »

I think one of the main advantages of the space internet is it will further take over the control of internet access. Regional rulers have to face a harder time on controlling internet. This will be a huge power to hold. And I guess it may reshape the world economically and politically. Any other thoughts regarding this?

Re: The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet

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Post by toomuchtodo »

agildehaus wrote: post #11
mytochar wrote: post #10

150ms is an incredible number, and the volume of satellites required will also increase bandwidth. This seems like a good situation to be in all around. I hope he succeeds at this work.

SpaceX has suggested around 20 ms latency with 4000 satellites offering near-gigabit speeds. Nothing but promises and a billion Google bucks right now, but I'm also hoping he succeeds. That'd be amazing. The fun part of his is that its supposed to fund his Mars ventures and be SpaceX's experience for putting a similar network around Mars. If it pans out, even in 2-3x his expected timeframe, I'll be the happiest geek…

> The fun part of his is that its supposed to fund his Mars ventures and be SpaceX's experience for putting a similar network around Mars.

It would be both incredibly cool and valuable to show up with all of the orbital infrastructure already in place (communications/positioning) waiting for us.

Re: The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet

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Post by thescorer »

mytochar wrote: post #10

150ms is an incredible number, and the volume of satellites required will also increase bandwidth. This seems like a good situation to be in all around. I hope he succeeds at this work.

I'm having a hard time translating 150ms into something I understand right now which is Mbps. Can someone enlighten me?

Re: The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet

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Post by ihsw »

thescorer wrote: post #15
mytochar wrote: post #10

150ms is an incredible number, and the volume of satellites required will also increase bandwidth. This seems like a good situation to be in all around. I hope he succeeds at this work.

I'm having a hard time translating 150ms into something I understand right now which is Mbps. Can someone enlighten me?

Well, simply put, there's more to a good user experience than having some high Mbps. For example, if your latency is high then loading a web page with fifty small pictures will take longer than one really big picture.

On your phone, when chatting with someone, the connection will be really choppy.

Think of it as having a car that can go really fast in a straight line, but it takes a really long time to make any left or right turns.

Re: The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet

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Post by richardbrevig »

thescorer wrote: post #15
mytochar wrote: post #10

150ms is an incredible number, and the volume of satellites required will also increase bandwidth. This seems like a good situation to be in all around. I hope he succeeds at this work.

I'm having a hard time translating 150ms into something I understand right now which is Mbps. Can someone enlighten me?

Mbps is capacity. Think of a water system of pipes...how many gallons of water can be put through per second. Latency is how long it takes to turn on the water.

So, high latency and high mbps = wait a second for image to start to load, once it does, image loads really fast.

Low latency and low mbps = image begins to load immediately but takes forever for the whole thing to appear.

Re: The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet

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Post by rasz_pl »

codinghorror wrote: post #7

I guess he was the first to come up with this radial heatsink design? http://www.google.com/patents/US20040200601 Stock Intel coolers do look like this today and have for a while. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about heatsinks. It is all tower and heatpipe models today, though, e.g. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6830/cpu-air-cooler-roundup-si... Originally popularized by the Scythe Ninja back in gosh, what, 2…

looks like junk patent, filed 4 years AFTER Thermaltake Golden orb

http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=256

Re: The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet

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Post by rgbrenner »

rasz_pl wrote: post #19
codinghorror wrote: post #7

I guess he was the first to come up with this radial heatsink design? http://www.google.com/patents/US20040200601 Stock Intel coolers do look like this today and have for a while. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about heatsinks. It is all tower and heatpipe models today, though, e.g. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6830/cpu-air-cooler-roundup-si... Originally popularized by the Scythe Ninja back in gosh, what, 2…

looks like junk patent, filed 4 years AFTER Thermaltake Golden orb http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=256

did you read the patent? it says: "Priority date Aug 30, 1999" and the first sentence of the description is: "[0001] This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/386,103, filed on Aug. 30, 1999."

which is: https://www.google.com/patents/US6851467 and was indeed filed on Aug 30 1999.

Which is almost a year before the Thermaltake Golden Orb.

Besides, he actually has his name on a number of patents: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&hl=en&tbm=pts&q=ininv...

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