Comments on: “Interplanetary internet” passes first test

By: DarkFader

DarkFader — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:32:57 +0000

Is there a tld for planet Earth yet? How would I otherwise visit the Google website from the moon?

ondra — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:27:36 +0000

WHOOAAA. So they built NNTP all over again. That is just awesome :))

TJHooker — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:00:33 +0000

They’ve had an article on howstuffworks about this for years. It’s actually *at least* 4 decades old, as far as usage goes.

All the old space missions used it. I guess they’re adding unique identifiers to planetary nodes, and routing algorithms or whatever.

NASA will encrypt it, hash it, and slap a heavy subscription fee on it.

You’d probably be shot for trying to intercept Mars Lander feedback.

cde — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:47:18 +0000

And I was looking for something for my Topics in Telecommunications presentation :D w00t nasa//hack

Cyrozap — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:06:19 +0000

Just for giggles:

Jesse — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:03:51 +0000

I can’t wait to post on some of the BBS systems on the new fidonet, haha.

J4y — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:35:12 +0000

.is for international station. .mn for the moon .mr for mars.

pragma — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:41:05 +0000

Technically speaking, this actually is a hack. The Epoxi craft, used to be called Deep Impact.

So NASA took something that was intended to smash apart comets and, basically, turned it into a wireless router with a huge frame buffer. Sweet.

ragnar — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:17:57 +0000

I ping’d Mars 40 minutes ago!
tracepath to Jupiter is taking hours again.

blizzarddemon — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:13:53 +0000

Pirates are lame, ninjas for the win

Yarrgh mateys! — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:42:33 +0000

yarrgh….

We are the pirates, we don’t do anything…

We just stay home and lie around…..

And when you ask us, if we don;t do anything….

we tell you.. we don’t do anything….

Levi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:29:28 +0000

Now I can be a space pirate! ARgh!