Having a laser they could just as well send the cat. He would follow the laser just as well.
NASA uses laser to send video of a cat named Taters over 19 million miles
Submitted 11 months ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cat-video-space-taters-nasa-laser/
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Michal@programming.dev 11 months ago
Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Guess what the cat is doing in the video
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Taxes?
z00s@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Faster than light travel achieved
Talaraine@kbin.social 11 months ago
Video beamed. Video intercepted by aliens. Think cats rule earth.
They're right.
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’d have to be really close. This doesn’t even get close to Mars or Venus.
darelik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They are.
whistles x-files theme
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So correct.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
ripcord@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lower latency than broadband…?
Alto@kbin.social 11 months ago
Something tells me you're not getting sub 100ms latency with broadband over 19 million miles
neptune@dmv.social 11 months 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.
Primarily0617@kbin.social 11 months ago
if you want more bandwidth you can just use more lasers
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
More lasers!!!
Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
gens@programming.dev 11 months ago
The beam is reeeealy wide by the time it gets there. Still a great achivement, though.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
ooterness@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, the high latency and intermittent connectivity is a big challenge. Delay tolerant networking (DTN) is one good way of solving this problem.
Restaldt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Doorbook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think the issue, again will be date and time.
DDMMYYYY + Planet + Orbit?
Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I presume that we’re not yet concerned with what the Ansible tech awoke in the vast emptiness between, hmm?
dhork@lemmy.world 11 months 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
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 11 months 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?”
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This strikes me with a “They’re made of meat?!” vibe.
burt@programming.dev 11 months ago
The article isn’t terribly long, but here is the direct link to Taters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvJtVOmFs5Q
Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 11 months ago
Thank you, I came here for the cat tax.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 11 months 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.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The MCRN & UNN would be proud.
paddirn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can’t wait til we can start watching interplanetary wars play out in real time.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Pretty sure it won’t be in realtime with all fhe light delay.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Can we have space settlement without the war and genocide? It’s not like killing Indians and robbing trains is a fundamental requirement.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 11 months 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
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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This is the correct use of technology. (But later let’s test the ping on Doom over laserlan)
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Taters is very precious!!
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MeatPilot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“What’s Taters?”
“Po-ta-toes… Boil um mash um stick um in a stew!”
quams69@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Taters, star surfer
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Everything’s fun and games until the Kilrathi discover this and its point of origin.
DigitalFrank@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Taters should have his own wikipedia page. First outer space cat video.
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s Taters, precious?
kambusha@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Spoil em, flash em, laser out a few.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Damn, beat me to it