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NASA Ping (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago (9 children)

smh NASA's really gotta get an ethernet cable running to that thing

[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago (8 children)

fun fact, that would make the transmission slower.

According to wikipedia cat5 cable has a propagation delay of 5.30 ns/m, which works out to about 62% of the speed of light. While radio waves propagate at the speed of light.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just have to wait until cat 9 comes out with gravitational lensing

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Or we need to move Mars closer to plug it into a 6ft Ethernet.

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