> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Spike Jones wrote:
>
> .... a moderately detailed description of connecting orbiting nodes with an
> optical waveguide...
>
> "Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> Good question. If you think it will work then I'm willing to accept it.
> ...
> You also have to move to single photon transmission & reception of
> the bits. With current transmission technologies, the energy
> value of the circulating photons of an MBrain are a sizeable
> fraction of the power output of the sun. Robert
Nay, for if we reduce the communications bandwidth, we need not
go to optical frequencies. These wispy interconnect cables, a few
dozen microns or so in diameter, can be used to carry simple
electrical signals at a few thousand baud. With sufficiently high
impedence, communications between nodes could be carried out
using very little power, a nearly negligible fraction of that collected
by the nodes.
The question becomes, what is the nature of the communication
between nodes? Will a few thousand bits per second be sufficient?
spike
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