this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
239 points (87.2% liked)

Technology

59593 readers
2971 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
239
Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home (www.iflscience.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by kalkulat to c/technology
142 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Everythingispenguins 126 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Okay just a hot take here, but I don't think this is the biggest barrier to interstellar travel.

[–] CurlyMoustache 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The worst thing about interstellar travel: no internet

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Two possible solutions:

  1. No interstellar travel
  2. Selfhost everything
[–] Tangent5280 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I once tried to set up a LAN game of Halo, and let me tell you I'm resigned to staying on earth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Earth is a massive obstacle to network communication. Move to an o’neill cylinder and never have latency again

[–] Tangent5280 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Are you suggesting I lead humanity into a golden interstellar post-scarcity future so that I can play halo without lag?

[–] RebekahWSD 3 points 11 months ago

It is your solemn duty!

[–] CurlyMoustache 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The goal of interstellar travel must be to reduce the ping to 0

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The best way to play Halo without lag is to make contact with the Covenant. So yeah, to space!

[–] linearchaos 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe by that point we'll have actual AI.

[–] Tronn4 2 points 11 months ago

Buddy can you imagine all the new alien pron in the new system though?

[–] iAvicenna 5 points 11 months ago

I mean space is pretty empty yea but I feel like it would be a pain in the ass to prevent a ship travelling at light speed from bumping into small to mid sized space debris. On the other hand, I am imagining with this much drive on energy techs we will be at some point able to come up with a solution to the energy requirement to power such a vessel.

[–] astropenguin5 5 points 11 months ago

Also, I don't think this is anything particularly new. It's pretty logical of you think about it for a few minutes.