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Originally Posted by Randall55
NASA confirmed Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with data nearly 10 million miles away to the Hale Telescope in San Diego. Known as "first light" this achievement paves the way toward higher-data-rate communications, high-definition imagery, and streaming video that can be transmitted throughout the solar system. If there are different life forms out there, are we asking for trouble? What would Spock advise us?
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I assume the higher data rate transmission is for space related communication. For those of us living on earth in the developed world, the existing optical fiber network provides a very high data rate transmission that is not dependent on atmospheric conditions.
On the other hand, maybe we can expose the entire solar system to 200 channels of TV that has nothing on there that anyone would want to watch.
