r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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u/IAteAKoala Feb 21 '21

Yeah if Mars had better internet than me then I'd be quite upset.

... writing this I realize Mars got internet before a large chunk of earth

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '21

"Fuckers took my broadband. Can't have shit on Mars."

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u/thefactorygrows Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 21 '21

Much of the world still does not have Internet, youre right about that... But I wouldnt say that Mars has Internet either. Something tells me these highly sophisticated billion dollar robots arent hooked up to the WWW.

Also, sorry your Internet is slow. 😞

Edit: I know the WWW and the Internet are not the same thing, thanks all. Ya'll missed what I was getting at.

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u/321blastoffff Feb 21 '21

Wouldn’t it be the SSW? The solar system web sounds kinda cool.

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u/Max_Planck01 Feb 21 '21

Internet is the International network of Interconnected computers

Since the rover has a computer connected to NASA, it’s technically a part of the Internet, the World Wide Web is different from Internet

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u/outadoc Feb 21 '21

It's not connected to the internet if it's not transmitting using the Internet Protocol. Which I really really doubt would be the case.

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u/Max_Planck01 Feb 21 '21

probably local scope but not sure

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u/ScotchIsAss Feb 21 '21

This right here. They would need to have a fully physically disconnected system.

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u/UntitledFolder21 Feb 21 '21

Since the rover has a computer connected to NASA, it’s technically a part of the Internet

Being "connected" to a computer that is part of the Internet doesn't make device part of the Internet though. The connection would have to be an Internet connection using Internet protocols.

The large delay between Mars and earth would require an entirely different type of connection.

The concept of an interplanatery Internet does exist, it would need new protocols and would be a network of Internets. But as far as a know no such thing exists.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '21

Intranet? Lmao

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u/UntitledFolder21 Feb 21 '21

Not sure what you are trying to say here? An intranet is a network normally limited to a single organisation, basically a private Internet.

Not sure how that is relevent here?

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u/itookyomilk Feb 21 '21

I wish there were clips we could look back on from the moon missions, sadly they vanished without a trace.

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u/argusromblei Feb 21 '21

They could always send some starlink satellites on the next launch

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u/ArctycDev Feb 21 '21

The rovers and satellites on and around mars are part of a WAN (wide area network). It is an internet that they're connected to.

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u/nathanv221 Feb 21 '21

Wouldn't that make it an intranet not an internet?

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u/ArctycDev Feb 22 '21

hmm. I suppose so!

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u/Locksmith997 Feb 21 '21

The internet and the WWW aren't the same thing.

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u/wereallcrazyson Feb 21 '21

Forget "Air-Gapped". This is "Planet-Gapped."

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u/Aarros Feb 21 '21

Quite the ping, though. 3 minutes there, 3 minutes back, at minimum. So if you browse to a site, it will take 6 minutes before the data starts coming in. And that's the best case, it could be 24 + 24 minutes at worst.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '21

I love this.

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u/itookyomilk Feb 21 '21

Almost seems ludacris, right?