Tech Thursday: Interplanetary Internet

I have to keep this version of Tech Thursday short for two reasons. I stumbled across this Cerf interview of Cisco's Subnet editor, Julie Bort, and was fascinated that we have even been working with interplanetary protocols. These people are smart enough that it hurts my head thinking about how smart they are. "We need this new Bundle Protocol to overcome the latencies and all the disconnects that occur in space, from celestial motion [and from] orbiting satellites" Come again?

Image via DMX Zone.

$150 > $50M

Just cause I found this awesome and haven't posted in a while: found this Wired article the other day about a group of MIT students who took the picture below. Here's the kicker: it cost them only $150