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



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