Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA just demonstrated a key piece of tech that could help, beaming messages via laser across a distance of almost 16 million kilometers or 10 million miles.
  • @Jiggle_Physics
    62•1 year ago

    A laser beam we fired in an experiment with very long distance communications tech.

    • livus
      38•1 year ago

      Thanks. That has to be one of the most clickbait titles I’ve ever seen.

    • @[email protected]English
      12•1 year ago

      This is the equivalent of scientists trying to find this weird space signal only to find out it was the microwave

  • @[email protected]English
    14•1 year ago

    Terrible misleading headline.

    The headline is trying to imply to those not in the know that we received communication from aliens.

    This was never even close to what happened.

    NASA was testing a method of high-speed data transfer for use in the future to expand the internet to other planets.

    This is not receiving a message from an alien. This is receiving test packets from us to us.

    Truthfully, I weep for whoever will have to play online games in the future through space-internet.

    Their ping is gonna be out of this world.

  • @hperrin
    7•1 year ago

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but ten million miles is like, not even to Mars. That’s not very far away.