NASA proves interplanetary internet, Lego proves marketing brilliance
Sunita Williams, current ISS commander, took 'a small step for mankind' and a giant leap for the internet when she controlled a small Lego-branded robot at the ESA headquarters in Germany through the internet from the ISS.
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The breakthrough on display in the Lego experiment was NASA’s ARPA-like innovation in networking: Disruption Tolerant Networking, or the DTN protocol, which again looks to inoculate communications against disruptions and equipment failures.
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Wonders will never cease when crazy engineers are afoot.
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The breakthrough on display in the Lego experiment was NASA’s ARPA-like innovation in networking: Disruption Tolerant Networking, or the DTN protocol, which again looks to inoculate communications against disruptions and equipment failures.
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Wonders will never cease when crazy engineers are afoot.
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