24 Jul
2008
24 Jul
'08
10:04 a.m.
On Thursday 24 July 2008 08:42, Jules Richardson wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Mars? What the heck do you do then when it's on the other side of the sun?
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
On 23 Jul 2008 at 22:08, Scanning wrote:
Hmm, big laser and a Mars-mounted reflector? Cue "world's biggest computer
" and "world's first interplanetary computer" threads :-) It has to be done in hardware otherwise why
bother. If you want the
respect and awe of the group show us your gravitas and use a spool of
fibre optic cable as the "media" and blink your data in through an LED
or LASER diode. A photo transistor or photo PIN diode at the end will
read your data so that it can be replicated at the beginning of the
fibre and start the whole loop over again. Makes me tingle just thinking
about it.
Crikey, I couldn't afford enough fiber to recirculate a megabit!
Let's see--I'm after a 10MHz bitrate and the speed of light through
glass is about 2.00x10**8 m/sec...