Elon Musk: people living on Mars could send Snapchats to Earth

SpaceX founder says a bespoke internet system may be needed for interplanetary communication

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Elon Musk announces plans to send an unmanned rocket to Mars by 2022 at last month’s International Astronautical Congress
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Elon Musk has revealed his plans for colonising Mars during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on the chat forum Reddit - and they may involve setting up a bespoke space internet system.

Asked by a fan whether the red planet would need its own internet infrastructure to communicate with Earth, the SpaceX and Tesla founder first (jokingly) called them a “nerd” before saying that simple web communications could be possible if the planets are close enough.

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