On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:44, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > Quoting Ross Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > It just blows my mind that even at such "small" distances as the > > circumference of the earth, the "ping" times are at noticeable lengths > > even at the (probably unattainable) speed of light. What happens when we > > want to play Quake VII with someone on a moon colony? Is it simply > > theoretically impossible? > > Yep. Except on Star Trek or Star Wars. > > You don't think they were moving the Mars Rover in real time do you? > > This also explains when I was having a IM conversation with.... er Stuart > or Evan or Byran or someone and they mentioned that they must route ResNet > traffic through Jupiter. It all came together after that. >
We just need to work on making the ansible from Ender's Game our physical layer. How hard can that be? Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
