In the expanse books and show there is a lag the further away the signal is going, instant if close. Sometimes minutes, sometimes hours. They’ll just be video chatting then you’ll reply to what someone say, wait 30 seconds for them to recieve it then they start speaking and you have to then wait 30 seconds to get their reply.
Yea I always love that they had a realistic light delay. Even in the show it is that way, and each call has an indicator for what the delay is based on how far away the person you’re talking to is.
Stargate was surprisingly good with this: there’s an episode where two members of team SG1 get stuck on a test flight gone wrong, and as they’re drifting past Jupiter the radio messages from home base start having timestamps attached to the end, as they’re a significant fraction of a light hour away already.
In the expanse books and show there is a lag the further away the signal is going, instant if close. Sometimes minutes, sometimes hours. They’ll just be video chatting then you’ll reply to what someone say, wait 30 seconds for them to recieve it then they start speaking and you have to then wait 30 seconds to get their reply.
Yea I always love that they had a realistic light delay. Even in the show it is that way, and each call has an indicator for what the delay is based on how far away the person you’re talking to is.
Stargate was surprisingly good with this: there’s an episode where two members of team SG1 get stuck on a test flight gone wrong, and as they’re drifting past Jupiter the radio messages from home base start having timestamps attached to the end, as they’re a significant fraction of a light hour away already.