Bandwidth between planets
Mar. 13th, 2011 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI find myself needing to know the probable media distrubition infrastruction of an interplanetary civilisation based in a system roughly like our own. Like, if humans go live around Jupiter, will they get movies from Earth, and if so how?
I vaguely understand about light speed lag, so I know any request will take a long time to do a round trip, and internet will not work the way we expect it to on Earth right now once you stretch the unavoidable light speed lag between planets. You wait because you have to wait. It could take you hours to get a 404 not found.
But what about television? Right now we can get satellite TV from all over the world, or downloads from all over the world, lots of channels, lots of choice. If we go to other planets will it be the same only slower? Or is there a limit to how much we could send that far?
If people travel between planets to buy the film rights for other planetary markets are we talking a physics limit, which humans can't route around, or just a wider version of region coding?
... my space traders want to go into the movie business. Data weighs less than metal. But does it need to weigh anything at all?
I vaguely understand about light speed lag, so I know any request will take a long time to do a round trip, and internet will not work the way we expect it to on Earth right now once you stretch the unavoidable light speed lag between planets. You wait because you have to wait. It could take you hours to get a 404 not found.
But what about television? Right now we can get satellite TV from all over the world, or downloads from all over the world, lots of channels, lots of choice. If we go to other planets will it be the same only slower? Or is there a limit to how much we could send that far?
If people travel between planets to buy the film rights for other planetary markets are we talking a physics limit, which humans can't route around, or just a wider version of region coding?
... my space traders want to go into the movie business. Data weighs less than metal. But does it need to weigh anything at all?