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One of the biggest problems facing deep space probes today is getting the signals back to Earth. With the inherent inefficiencies in communications over such distances, they cannot transmit live images; it takes far longer to transmit the image than it takes the probe to capture the image in the first place.<br /><br /><br /><br />That may be about to change. A team from MIT has developed a light detector that can function as a receiver. It is much more efficient than previous attempts to do this.<br /><br /><br /><br />Detector may speed up interplanetary communications<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>