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2007-04-26 Science & Technology
U.S. team pulls 40 Gbps in lasercomm test
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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Wow! Think of the pr0n you can download with those speeds!
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-04-26 00:29||   2007-04-26 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 They better get busy and make some more pr0n because at those speeds people are going to go through everything that exists today in no time at all!
Posted by gorb 2007-04-26 00:57||   2007-04-26 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 You'd be surprised at the data that is generated in a day by the DoD and all the sensors on all the platforms out there.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-04-26 01:28||   2007-04-26 01:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I've always guessed that it was a LOT. Trick is, how do you make sense of it all?
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2007-04-26 01:33||   2007-04-26 01:33|| Front Page Top

#5 TSAT, or Transformational Satellite Communications System

Hmmm... that acronym doesn't look right to me.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2007-04-26 06:49|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-04-26 06:49|| Front Page Top

#6 MEthinks they should drop the word communication.
Posted by Mike N. 2007-04-26 09:07||   2007-04-26 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 T&ASAT.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-04-26 09:25||   2007-04-26 09:25|| Front Page Top

#8 I've always guessed that it was a LOT. Trick is, how do you make sense of it all?

Computer data sorting.

Think tanks and national labs aren't the only places building cluster-based supercomputers.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2007-04-26 10:38|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com]  2007-04-26 10:38|| Front Page Top

#9 "You have reached the end of the Internet. Please hit the 'RETURN' key to start over."

A geek's dream!
Posted by Almost Anonymous5839">Almost Anonymous5839  2007-04-26 10:48||   2007-04-26 10:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Spam at hyperspeed
Posted by Captain America 2007-04-26 15:57||   2007-04-26 15:57|| Front Page Top

#11 All well and good, but how do you communicate during a heavy cloud cover or in sandstorms and other local weather conditions? Using microwaves would work to a point, but there is still interference. I think there's more to the system than what's being discussed - at least I hope so.

An SR-71 could map 95,000 square miles in an hour. It usually took a team of 20 people ten days to interpret all the targetted installations covered. I KNOW we do ten times that much today, and that doesn't include all the drones that are flying. I'd bet the military has an overwhelming need for well-trained imagery analysts. Computers can only do so much.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2007-04-26 16:58|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2007-04-26 16:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Mexicans are available who will do the work that Americans will not. Just drag a fiver through town at around 7AM.
Posted by wxjames 2007-04-26 19:23||   2007-04-26 19:23|| Front Page Top

#13 OP:
Unfortunately, I left the books at work, but atmospheric absorption and scattering is depending on frequency. There are bands where it is much less than others. (Surprisingly enough, most countries' radars are in that region.)
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2007-04-26 22:36|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2007-04-26 22:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Trick is, how do you make sense of it all?

An old friend of mine who used to work with Seymour Cray and had a security clearance once asked me, "Ya know how Tom Clancy writes about the NSA having rooms full of Cray supercomputers? ... Well, it's true."
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-04-26 23:09||   2007-04-26 23:09|| Front Page Top

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