Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show - internet stuff

[CosmicRay <cr@cosmicray.co.uk>]

L4 and L5 are about 1AU away (approx. 8 light minutes).  Throw in a TCP-like protocol and comms become slooow.

Bringing the station a lot closer, as in to L1, and using a prefetching web protocol like Timo suggests over something akin to UDP would be the best solution imo.

kozmikreis



On 19 Jul 2010, at 09:37, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Wait, how is the speed of light nearly 300megametres/second and yet it
> would take 18 minutes to open a new link? I don't follow the physics
> behind this. Distance / speed of light = less than 1/100 of a second.
> What am I missing here?
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