Why You Will Never Have Zoom Calls With Mars | Answers With Joe

"long answer: nnnnnnooooo" is the best worst joke you've made yet

Can we just take a moment and appreciate that we are seriously talking about the nuances of communication with humans on another planet. The fact that we even have this problem to deal with is exciting.

Earth: send wall of text... 20 mins later.... Mars: k

7:32 when the internet speed is better on Mars than in your hometown, feels bad.

For anyone that grew up in the 90's this isn't so bad.

I don't even know any one on Mars so I am not worried.

4mbps per second is literally faster than my internet

I am a father of 7, with 4 grandchildren and growing. I have discussed with my children several times that given the chance I would take a one way ticket to Mars. To be one of the first, a true explorer. What surprises me is that they don’t understand why I would give up what I have. And I don’t understand why they can’t understand me.

As a Texan (Howdy, Joe! From the RGV here!) in my own personal experience 15 years ago I moved to England from Texas & when I go back it feels completely alien to me now... also- people move on quickly- it’s quite heartbreaking but when you are the one to leave your native land, they get over you pretty quickly... I’ve got family who I haven’t seen for YEARS that I used to be close to... then after a while you move on, too. And that’s here on earth!

This is why in The Expance Martians almost immediately distanced themselves from culturally from earth.

Hi Joe! Quantum Information PhD here. The problem with entanglement not providing faster than light communication is not that we can't act on one of the two particles without breaking the entanglement. Actually, that's pretty easy, and is routinely done in experiments! The issue is much more fundamental: there is no way to "force" a locally measured particle to be found in (say) the "up" state. Entanglement only tells you that the two outcomes are correlated (e.g. they are opposite) but provides no way to choose which outcome you get...

"To kill two birds with one stone, I shall build a giant trebuchet to launch myself to Mars. Thus, I will never have to use a Zoom call AND I may get a job with SpaceX!" -Sun Tzu, the art of War (probably)

Lmaooo, the long answer: nooo oooo ooo That was good aha

As an IT professional, you seem to have a very good understanding of the many complications involving data-transfer between planets. A lot of people don't seem to fully grasp how complicated these communications truly are. Long-time viewer, keep up the good work Joe!

Well, when I woke up this morning, I didn't expect to be screaming "NO COMMUNICATION THEORUM" at my phone as hard as I could...

In one of his stories Vernor Vinge touched on a possible solution: AI-based predictive buffering. A pair of AIs at each end of the Earth to Mars channel are designed to learn the data request patterns and to get material to the other end before it is needed. We do something like this right now for many hierarchical storage solutions relying just on locality of reference. It should be possible to do a lot better once the common patterns of usage are understood. Combine that with really, really big buffers at each end and Mars would have near-instantaneous access to most Earth material it needs. (Zoom performance still would be rather annoying, though.)

Speaking of Interstellar, I just noticed this the other day. Remember when they went to the giant wave planet with 1.6 times earth gravity?...they exited the planet's gravity well with an SSTO. And at the beginning they used a 3 stage rocket...ya see the problem here?

"Getting a letter from New York to London in colonial times would take weeks or months... or sometimes wouldn't get there at all." Wow, like sending letters from Australia to the London today, then?

The best Schrödinger's cat explanation I've ever heard, no cat necessary.

Maan... I just can't wait for the 5th season of The Expanse!