Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home
Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home
Sci-fi might have spoiled us with how communication would work in space.
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Okay just a hot take here, but I don't think this is the biggest barrier to interstellar travel.
The worst thing about interstellar travel: no internet
Two possible solutions:
- No interstellar travel
- Selfhost everything
I once tried to set up a LAN game of Halo, and let me tell you I'm resigned to staying on earth.
Earth is a massive obstacle to network communication. Move to an o’neill cylinder and never have latency again
Are you suggesting I lead humanity into a golden interstellar post-scarcity future so that I can play halo without lag?
It is your solemn duty!
The goal of interstellar travel must be to reduce the ping to 0
The best way to play Halo without lag is to make contact with the Covenant. So yeah, to space!
Maybe by that point we'll have actual AI.
Buddy can you imagine all the new alien pron in the new system though?
Also, I don't think this is anything particularly new. It's pretty logical of you think about it for a few minutes.
I mean space is pretty empty yea but I feel like it would be a pain in the ass to prevent a ship travelling at light speed from bumping into small to mid sized space debris. On the other hand, I am imagining with this much drive on energy techs we will be at some point able to come up with a solution to the energy requirement to power such a vessel.