17 17
18 18 <h1>Coping with Delays in Space Communication</h1>
19 19
20 20 <p>Due to the time it takes for a radio signal to propagate between the planet
21 21 Earth and the planet Mars the Silktorrent packet based software applications
22 22 will be very competitive among Earth-Mars communications applications. A
23 23 citation from <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/652580/">lwn.net article</a> <i>(<a href="https://archive.is/TfuCm">archival
24 -copy</a>, )</i>:</p>
24 +copy</a>, <a href="./ainfo/c7c1e7f4d9461f9f">local copy</a>)</i>:</p>
25 25
26 26 <p style="text-align: right;"><i>...Krekel noted that Elon Musk wants to get
27 27 humanity to Mars by 2026. Do we think that 41-year-old technology like TCP/IP
28 28 or the 21-year-old HTTP will work on Mars? Can you call Gmail as a web app on
29 29 Mars? Someone in the audience suggested that it would just take "patience"
30 30 which elicited widespread laughter. Krekel said that the protocols we have will
31 31 not work on Mars.</i></p>