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.
  • @spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
    11•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.

    • @neocamel
      4•1 year ago

      Their ping is gonna be out of this world.

      I see what you did there.