How will humans establish communication with each other far away into the stars in the space era? I understand text will be the most common way to communicate over long distances but what about audio, video or large data packages?
As of 2025 communications with our satellites in the solar system are very fast and commands for the voyager 1 take around 23 hours to reach their destination.

>>106115482 (OP)
Depending on the level of technology involved, they may simply become isolated bubbles of culture and even possibly regress.

>>106115482 (OP)
If we can take people that far, we can put relays on the way there

>>106115482 (OP)
quantum communicators with instant data transfer duh

I miss Freelancer so much bros.

>>106115482 (OP)
Fiber connection. 5Ghz band.
>what about duh sun and muh orbits
make it go around, retard

>>106115482 (OP)
Lol, there's not going to be a "space era".

>>106115482 (OP)
If you can send text data, you can send any data. What a retarded premise for a thread.

>>106115482 (OP)
there is only RF or infra
and infra is not ideal

>>106117571
true, why use morse code when you can send a tiktok instead?

>>106115482 (OP)
you are dealing with 3 separate problems: bandwidth, delay, and jitter
go figure out the rest yourself

>>106115482 (OP)
It depends on whether faster than light or warp are possible for physical matter and for communication. If only for physical matter, you'd have warp ships essentially sneakernet data between systems. Otherwise, quantum or hyperpulse communications, again, if possible.
If it's all sublight speed, slow boats, then >>106115491

>>106115482 (OP)
It won't be humans who will fly to the stars. The human brain isn't evolved enough to solve the required riddles of nature and physics.
I assume whatever flies to the stars in the far future will not care about things like culture or have vastly different ideas of what a society looks like.

RF travels *relatively* slowly and has isgnal issues in space.
Light (laser etc.) is faster but has attenuation issues - literally a speck of dust or receiver moving microns can corrupt or lose signal.

Probably a combo.

is Expanse tight-beam communication realistic?

>>106115482 (OP)
bold of you to assume humanity will be around long enough to develop interstellar travel
but the answer is they probably wont because any kind of electromagnetic communication would be extremely low bandwidth

>>106120168
photons are impossible to aim precisely enough to hit the receiver at a percentage high enough to make it viable.
intelligent ships can steer themselves.
it's like the difference between dumb and smart bombs

>>106115482 (OP)
Mail ships like we used to do a century ago

>>106115482 (OP)
Assuming humanity doesn't fuck off and break into isolated groups for relatively close comms I guess we'd use relays but for sending stuff far I think dedicated mailrunner ships would be the most common way.

>>106120842
Line of sight works here and that's thru an atmosphere. Probably get better results with maser but as this anon >>106117805
kinda put it -
loss of gain, signal loss/degradation and attenuation (particularly over distance)

>>106120616
>tfw Avarisala keeps asking what the delay is...

>>106115482 (OP)
We can even leave this retarded rock and you worry about intergalactic communication?

We don't even know how to control antigravity.

servers orbiting saturn

>>106122734
>We don't even know how to control antigravity.
Maybe we should start with controlling gravity 1st and then move onto ag...