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		dcow on May 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps ... At 200Gb/s I think not. You have to factor in the round trip time for an astronaut and multiply that many seconds by 200 billion to get the total to compare against. At 25GB/s you’d fill up a 500GB SD card in 20 seconds.

abwizz on May 30, 2023 [–]

more like 160 seconds. check you b's

Dylan16807 on May 30, 2023 | [–]

I think you read something wrong.

200 gigabits equals 25 gigabytes, and is five percent of a 500GB SD card.

abwizz on May 31, 2023 | | [–]

sure, my bad!

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