We've had no communication with anyone else underground at this stage.

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But for the most part, Americans of every age and stage are wrapping themselves in apps, clicks and instantaneous communication as part of a social network.

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The "Mona Lisa" experiment was transmitted at a slow data rate of about 300 bits per second, but the "pathfinding achievement sets the stage for ... high data rate laser-communication demonstrations that will be a central feature of NASA's next moon mission, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, " said Goddard's Richard Vondrak, the orbiter's deputy project scientist.

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