This is about mankind taking impressive first steps toward becoming an inter-planetary species. This is exactly the type of news we all want to see and read about here on Slashdot. And you still cannot think of anything else but politics.

Anyone here who cannot separate their political opinions from the impressive technological advancement such as this, really needs to take a step back and have some self-reflection with your priorities in life.

Go argue politics on some political site, embrace and enjoy the technology news here on Slashdot!

Is this really news for nerds??

Is this really news for nerds??

Maybe in the early universe, time (as in the motion of atoms) progressed much faster allowing these galaxies to form in a fraction of the time it would take just a billion years later after the universe had expanded.

All that energy in such a young/compact universe may have behaved much differently than we understand.

Even if you have a latency of 50ms or so, there is still some time required to compress the audio into one of the codecs used for voip. Some codecs take 100's ms of time to compress the audio, some (which take up more bandwidth usually) take around 100. If you have an actual voip phone, then the compression is done a little faster since its done via hardware, but if you are using a softphone on your computer, then expect that compression to take a bit longer.