Open Menu
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
lotide
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
Login

NASA uses laser to send video of a cat named Taters over 19 million miles

⁨631⁩ ⁨likes⁩

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Rapidcreek@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cat-video-space-taters-nasa-laser/

source

Comments

Sort:hotnewtop
  • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s Taters, precious?

    source
    • kambusha@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Spoil em, flash em, laser out a few.

      source
    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Damn, beat me to it

      source
  • Michal@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Having a laser they could just as well send the cat. He would follow the laser just as well.

    source
    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Guess what the cat is doing in the video

      source
      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Taxes?

        source
    • z00s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Faster than light travel achieved

      source
  • Talaraine@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Video beamed. Video intercepted by aliens. Think cats rule earth.

    They're right.

    source
    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’d have to be really close. This doesn’t even get close to Mars or Venus.

      source
      • darelik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They are.

        whistles x-files theme

        source
    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So correct.

      source
  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bit annoying that they’re more specific about latency than bandwidth. The laser had lower latency than broadband, but I want to know if the laser had enough bandwidth to stream the video.

    source
    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This latest milestone comes after “first light” was achieved on Nov. 14. Since then, the system has demonstrated faster data downlink speeds and increased pointing accuracy during its weekly checkouts. On the night of Dec. 4, the project demonstrated downlink bit rates of 62.5 Mbps, 100 Mbps, and 267 Mbps, which is comparable to broadband internet download speeds. The team was able to download a total of 1.3 terabits of data during that time. As a comparison, NASA’s Magellan mission to Venus downlinked 1.2 terabits during its entire mission from 1990 to 1994.

      nasa.gov/…/nasas-tech-demo-streams-first-video-fr…

      source
      • ButtDrugs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Honestly the 1.2 TB I’m the early 90s is an insanely impressive figure to me. I mean in that era a gigabyte seemed like an obscene amount of data, the interat ran at less than 56 kbps, and I don’t think I had a 1GB drive in my hime PC until almost the turn of the millennium. Sending and storing that much from venus is a huge accomplishment.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lower latency than broadband…?

      source
      • Alto@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Something tells me you're not getting sub 100ms latency with broadband over 19 million miles

        source
        • -> View More Comments
    • neptune@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      "The video was then downloaded and each frame was sent to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where it was played in real time. "

      It sounds like it. Laser comm can have some insanely high data rates due to the high frequency of the radiation.

      source
    • Primarily0617@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      if you want more bandwidth you can just use more lasers

      source
      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        More lasers!!!

        source
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What strikes me is not the bandwidth achieved but the precision of the technology to aim the laser. 19 million miles is a great distance to successfully aim a beam of light. As this technology develops, real time communications with objects in orbit like around Mars will be possible.

    source
    • gens@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The beam is reeeealy wide by the time it gets there. Still a great achivement, though.

      source
    • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m wondering if we will need to tweak our Internet protocols to include interplanetary time? I would imagine mirroring would be much more important. Because light can only go so fast.

      source
      • ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, the high latency and intermittent connectivity is a big challenge. Delay tolerant networking (DTN) is one good way of solving this problem.

        source
      • Restaldt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        en.m.wikipedia.org/…/InterPlanetary_File_System

        source
      • Doorbook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think the issue, again will be date and time.

        DDMMYYYY + Planet + Orbit?

        source
        • -> View More Comments
      • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m sure several OSI layers have already been modified by NASA to suit their needs. But, the protocols will pretty much remain standard.

        source
    • littlebluespark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I presume that we’re not yet concerned with what the Ansible tech awoke in the vast emptiness between, hmm?

      source
  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Despite transmitting from millions of miles away, it was able to send the video faster than most broadband internet connections

    That guy must be a Spectrum subscriber

    source
  • doctorcrimson@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “We’re receiving coherent signals from the edge of the Milky Way.”

    “Life can exist in such isolation? What are they saying, do they need rescue?”

    “It’s a video of a small fuzzy animal.”

    “What?”

    “When we probed deeper to get more context, we found millions of such videos, supposedly they’re cherished non-intelligient companions and the people there wished to express that.”

    “…

    …

    What?”

    source
    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This strikes me with a “They’re made of meat?!” vibe.

      source
  • burt@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The article isn’t terribly long, but here is the direct link to Taters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvJtVOmFs5Q

    source
    • Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you, I came here for the cat tax.

      source
    • key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank goodness for “this is a test”. For a moment I was panicking about an invasion of space cats and their terrifying laser hunting capabilities.

      source
  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The MCRN & UNN would be proud.

    source
    • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can’t wait til we can start watching interplanetary wars play out in real time.

      source
      • circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pretty sure it won’t be in realtime with all fhe light delay.

        source
      • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Can we have space settlement without the war and genocide? It’s not like killing Indians and robbing trains is a fundamental requirement.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Someone on my work wiki is a picture of puppies that I sent over SWIFT to a bank to test that the relationship was setup properly.

    Cats and dogs are always acceptable test messages

    source
  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    1. This is the correct use of technology. (But later let’s test the ping on Doom over laserlan)

    2. Taters is very precious!!

    source
  • MeatPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “What’s Taters?”

    “Po-ta-toes… Boil um mash um stick um in a stew!”

    source
  • quams69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Taters, star surfer

    source
  • Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everything’s fun and games until the Kilrathi discover this and its point of origin.

    source
  • DigitalFrank@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Taters should have his own wikipedia page. First outer space cat video.

    source