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I hope they were recording the whole time and upload the videos to YouTube. I can't wait to watch Hannibal on the Pyrenees From Space.mp4

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You'll have to wait 6000 years to see it on YouTube: 1500 for them to hear about YouTube and 4500 for them to upload (assuming TCP)

It would go faster if they loaded a bunch of usb sticks in a station wagon and shot the wagon across space.

Only if they can average 0.25c, which seems unlikely :)

Sheesh. I can't believe after 6000 years TCP is still in use.

At least 25% of it will be over IPv6!

> At least 25% of it will be over IPv6!

We probably will need IPv10 to connect all the dots in the sky!

Actually no! Estimates I found are of around 10^23 stars in the universe. There are over 10^38 IPv6 addresses, so even if there were tens of inhabitable worlds per star and billions or even trillions of addresses per world, we'd have enough! (Although it is possible that stars number is a significant underestimate.)

IPv6 only has space for 10^19 networks, so you would need to heavily chop up /64s if you wanted to number the universe.

But IP is not designed for high-latency networks, so this only really matters if FTL communication is invented.

Internet of Stars™

Maybe even as much as 26%, who knows...

That might be the funniest thing I've ever read on HN.

For a second I thought I was on reddit.

I was beginning to think we collectively lost our sense of humor.

There is hope. Now quick, someone post a cat pic and a relevant gif.

Edit: Not complaining about the downvotes, but guys, this is the internet, not work. Loosen up. Smile for once. It's good for you, and confuses people.

It seems like UDP is probably a better protocol for this use case.

I've got a really good joke about UDP, but you might not get it.

That's fine. I've got a great joke about TCP, and I'll just keep telling it to you until you get it. I'll just speak slower each time...

ROFLMAO I got it, I got it... so I think I'm TCP? :P

Until a gamma beam disrupts the connection and you miss the best part, that is!

no redirect to https?

My favorite thought is that they've sent probes millions of years ago and we could send a request to watch some HD surveillance of dinosaurs roaming the Earth. It'll just take ~3k years to receive the requested footage.

Not if you board a spaceship and travel to them at close to light speed! Then you, personally, would just wait a few hours.

You're right about the idea, but a few hours is way too short, because of how the Human body tolerance to strong accelerations.

Assuming an acceleration of 10 m/s^2 (similar to Earth's gravity), it will takes roughly one year to accelerate to a speed close to the speed of light were relativistic effects occurs, and you will need one more year to decelerate.

Once again, it will be easier to bring people to the data, than data to people.

Hannibal lived 247 – 183/182/181 BC. That's a few hundred years earlier than 615 AD.

do they have a pirate bay?

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