Over 100,000 people apply for one-way trip to Mars (edition.cnn.com) 3 points by anigbrowl 12y ago ↗ HN
[–] hack37 12y ago ↗ I won't sign up until they make sure there will be Internet... with Earth. [–] kken 12y ago ↗ It may not be as much fun as you're used to with ping times of 2-5 minutes... [–] thedrbrian 12y ago ↗ Look at kken with his fancy pants connection. Apparently the lag is more like 20 minuteshttp://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tl_surface_nav.html [–] dwild 12y ago ↗ It takes about 1182 seconds for light to go from Earth to Mars. Which means that it will take about 39 minutes to see Google and this is if you already resolved the DNS. [–] kken 12y ago ↗ Oops, sorry, looks like I slipped again. Reminder: Don't talk about Ultramarsnet.
[–] kken 12y ago ↗ It may not be as much fun as you're used to with ping times of 2-5 minutes... [–] thedrbrian 12y ago ↗ Look at kken with his fancy pants connection. Apparently the lag is more like 20 minuteshttp://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tl_surface_nav.html [–] dwild 12y ago ↗ It takes about 1182 seconds for light to go from Earth to Mars. Which means that it will take about 39 minutes to see Google and this is if you already resolved the DNS. [–] kken 12y ago ↗ Oops, sorry, looks like I slipped again. Reminder: Don't talk about Ultramarsnet.
[–] thedrbrian 12y ago ↗ Look at kken with his fancy pants connection. Apparently the lag is more like 20 minuteshttp://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tl_surface_nav.html [–] dwild 12y ago ↗ It takes about 1182 seconds for light to go from Earth to Mars. Which means that it will take about 39 minutes to see Google and this is if you already resolved the DNS. [–] kken 12y ago ↗ Oops, sorry, looks like I slipped again. Reminder: Don't talk about Ultramarsnet.
[–] dwild 12y ago ↗ It takes about 1182 seconds for light to go from Earth to Mars. Which means that it will take about 39 minutes to see Google and this is if you already resolved the DNS.
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