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Interstellar web addresses?
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Hi,
Anyone know if any interstellar web address's have been allocated yet?
Moon base, Mars, P3x1549 ?anyone?
K.
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Clinically Insane
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Links don't work 
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Originally Posted by reader50
You must have a better ISP than I do, all I get is 'Server not found' 
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Clinically Insane
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Ha, beat you to it by seconds 
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Originally Posted by Knightrider
Hi,
Anyone know if any interstellar web address's have been allocated yet?
Moon base, Mars, P3x1549 ?anyone?
K.
Mean an inter-planetary system? That does raise issues seeing as there is a large com delay between here and the rest of the system.
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On occasion, I've heard it mentioned in passing that the space station crew were checking their email, or surfing the internet. To do that, they'd have to connect through somewhere and be issued an IP address. If one of them ever turned on a web server, it would get that address.
Presumably, they are being connected through NASA's internal network, and would appear as a ground address in the .gov TLD. Pity. Another solution would be a new TLD for off-earth addresses. They're issuing new TLDs for stuff that's much less important.
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Originally Posted by MacManMikeOSX
That does raise issues seeing as there is a large com delay between here and the rest of the system.
Yea, It needs a Stargate type worm hole.
Actually, radio waves travel very quickly through space. Radio waves are a kind of electromagnetic radiation, and thus they move at the speed of light. The speed of light is a little less than 300,000 km per second. At that speed, a beam of light could go around the Earth at the equator more then 7 times in a second.
The reason that it takes so long for radio messages to travel in space is that space is mind-bogglingly big. The distances to be traveled are so great that even light or radio waves take a while getting there. It takes around eight minutes for radio waves to travel from the Earth to the Sun, and four years to get from here to the nearest star.
Perhaps this is an area where, one day, we could make a breakthrough on the 'Lightspeed' barrier. Perhaps by sending data down a laser.
But then I tell myself that perhaps watching to much SciFi distorts ones perception of time and space.
K.
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