Cosmic Internet

Have you been worrying about what kind of WiFi connection you would get if you were in space? Well, NASA is about to make it a little easier to post your space photos to Instagram.

They are working to make interplanetary internet a thing. Are you surprised to know that there have been previous efforts to bring WiFi throughout the solar system?

This new attempt will use Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) and I love this idea of cosmic WiFI.

Is there any practical application for this research? Well, yes. Communicating from Earth to any spacecraft is really complex. The Moon is about 250,000 miles away. Mars is 140 million miles away. NASA has three communication networks: the Deep Space Network (DSN), the Near Earth Network (NEN), and the Space Network (SN).

That Space Network made me think of President Trump who said in early June that he has  ordered the Pentagon to create a “space force” as the Defense Department’s sixth military service branch, “separate but equal” to the Air Force.

“When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space,” siad Trump during a White House meeting with members of the National Space Council.

If a Space Force sounds weird, so must Cosmic WiFi.  It is fertile ground for comedy and parody. I saw a tweet from a parody Trump Twitter account that said that not only willwe build a base on mars, but the Martians will pay for it.

Well, if Trump ever gets into space, at least he can still tweet.

In looking online, I also discovered a book, The Cosmic Internet, about the author’s direct conversations with the nonphysical aspects of the universe.

What?

The author contends that after our physical lives are concluded, will we continue to exist in some way.

The author, Frank DeMarco, writes that he can channel, connect, and communicate with guides or spiritual teachers and address questions that humans have been asking for thousands of years.

This "internet" is metaphysical, not a physical, network.