
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 13, 2022]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
The Importance of Satellite Radio
Satellite radio companies aren't just sending their signals to satellites. When there is available, when there are things like cell phone towers available, they're also using those kinds of things to transmit the signals. The packets have serial numbers and it's like we've got packet one, two, three, four. But sometimes a packet will be received by your satellite radio receiver. What do you do? Well, what happens on the internet with protocols like TCP is that you simply request a new copy of that packet.
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