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SPACE INTERNET

November 09, 2009
by WILLIAM NIGH

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Thanks to Google, pretty soon you’ll be able to waste your life away browsing the internet from the moon. Vint Cerf, one of Google’s leading developers, is working on a new protocol called Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) to ensure access to the great latrine of human cerebral waste no matter where you are in the solar system. DTN replaces the old TCP protocol and improves upon its predecessor by allowing long gaps in communication between computer and server. This is a great advancement for astronauts who just couldn’t seem to catch those fleeting CP deluges on 4chan.

For those keeping score: People who believe NASA is gearing up to leave the planet before the Arizona Baying of the Earth’s landmass get ten more points for this story.


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    sassafras: this is scary. because it also means signals can be sent into space and this would be a hackers ultimate dream to fuck up nasa.

    8 days ago

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    KirbyPuckett: Not too long ago I was dealing with dial-up pings and static and now our astronauts are going to have wireless? It's not fair, I tell ya.

    10 days ago

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      TammyFaye: And they have toilets that suck the piss right out of your dick.

      8 days ago

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    SearsPoncho: Where no porn has gone before...

    10 days ago

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      samiam: you don't think some astronauts haven't taken porn into space before? don't forget how long the cosmonauts have stayed in orbit. i'm sure there was some tossing going on. hello, zero-g toilet!

      10 days ago

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    Jono: Just another thing for nerds to hack and brag about on websites only other nerds can access.

    10 days ago

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    Rominel: Bombing the moon, space internet, etc. All this for a space station? Really?

    11 days ago

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    rabbit: fuck haters. this is cool.

    11 days ago

    • Jiminycricket1_thumb

      jiminy: cool? yes. needed? no.

      11 days ago

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    FOURTHWARD: Remember when the space program helped produce awesomely useful products like microwaves and ball point pens? People would be much better off if these geniuses spent their time making stuff like pen cap flavored beef jerky, or Mont Blanc pizza rolls.

    11 days ago

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    smearcampaign: you know, you'd think that anyone in space would have more important shit to do than check on their daily blogs, but what do i know?

    11 days ago

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    uly: how fitting. the satellite looks like a stubby little penis.

    11 days ago

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    TowJam: All this tech, yet I still have buffer times when I take my laptop to the back of my apartment.

    11 days ago

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      smearcampaign: no kidding. how about city-wide wi-fi before universe-wide?

      11 days ago

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