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Related: About this forumThe Moon Has Faster Transfer Speeds Than Any Country On Earth
This is Akamais recent survey of world internet speeds. Life on the internet is great, in South Korea. Less great in India. But none of these countries have anything on the moon:
NASAs Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) has made history using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239,000 miles between the moon and Earth at a record-breaking download rate of 622 megabits per second (Mbps).
LLCD is NASAs first system for two-way communication using a laser instead of radio waves. It also has demonstrated an error-free data upload rate of 20 Mbps transmitted from the primary ground station in New Mexico to the spacecraft currently orbiting the moon.
If this connection were used to send, say, a Blu-ray rip of The Dark Knight from the moon, it would take about 30 seconds. Downloading a typical five minute MP3 would take less than a second. Downloading OS X Mavericks, which is about 5 GB, would take a minute. You could send the entirety of Spotifys music collection over 20m songs from the moon, where it is used for moon dancing, the greatest reduced-gravity pastime, in about eight days. Theres no texting on the moon! Only iMessage over Wi-Fi.
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The Moon Has Faster Transfer Speeds Than Any Country On Earth (Original Post)
n2doc
Oct 2013
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JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)2. Impressive,
the information on the pink part I mean.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)3. But only one gets read, maybe.
the rest are destroyed.
tridim
(45,358 posts)4. True, but it's still one of my favorite stats. :)
The "best" data gets through.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)6. The Republican Party is proof you are wrong on that.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)5. Nonsensical headline.
If there were a user on the Moon (which there isn't) hogging the entire interplanetary connection, comparing that transfer rate to a typical user's anywhere on Earth is kind of...dumb.
eppur_se_muova
(36,271 posts)7. Want. nt
struggle4progress
(118,296 posts)8. It's a plot to encourage internet addicts to resettle on the moon!