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Can we have a space station at L2? That'd be awesome. I am sorry but if I make it big like Elon I will be moving to L2. Take WFH to a new level.

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Enjoy your 10 second round trip time to earth. Hope you're not required to log in via remote desktop! :)

Just imagine the TLS handshakes.

Well, are you talking over RF, or laser communications?

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/lcrd/index.html

Both of those are limited to the speed of light in a vacuum.

Perhaps http/3/QUIC can help? UDP and all plus 0RTT handshakes with tls 1.3. Maybe not very good for RDP or IRC. But if I am rich like elon musk I think I will just watch Netflix and regular sites like HN or reddit. Maybe have a caching proxy on high earth orbit.

I'm not sure what work's been done on interplanetary / space-based network security, but suspect it would have to be based on known secrets or keys, cached well ahead of time.

Certainly, any protocols based on handshakes would be a non-starter even at lunar distances (384,000 km, 1.28 light seconds), let alone interplanetary ones (20 minutes to Mars, up to 90 minutes to Jupiter).

At interstellar ranges, the problem becomes even more complex, with keys taking years to be received.

There are some preliminary discussions of space-based IP communications. I do suspect that UDP would be preferred over TCP, for obvious reasons.

Space is pretty bad for you. Would not recommend.

Exactly, from radiation to muscle loss - humans are simply not meant to live in space. BUT - it doesn't mean we won't eventually, especially if forced off Earth due to some human made or natural catastrophy. Humans may need to evolve for space living though. It may take many generations of evolution and adaptation and natural selection.

Maybe I will vacation back to lowly earth once in a while :) . But seriously, astronauts do up to a year fine right? Has anyone gotten seriously ill or died? I've heard of bone density loss, but do you really need dense bones if you will not come back to earth?

The ISS is in a low enough orbit that it is protected by the earths magnetosphere.

Radiation, space anemia, immune system issues, and probably a lot of other things we would know more about if people stayed in space longer.

Your body is built to expect gravity to pull blood down. The circulatory system thus pushes blood up. When in space this creates problems.

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