That's exactly how the Soviets pulled off the geopolitical coup of broadcasting images from the dark side of the moon back to earth. They pulled it off first, because they were clever about it.
What you are proposing will absolutely work. Imagine a self-routing datagram trying to get closer to its destination at each step. In fact, that's exactly how the Internet is designed. Self-healing, self-routing, best-effort. Chop messages up into little pieces, and send them off to their destination, and hope for the best that they'll be reassembled correctly at the destination.
What you are proposing will absolutely work. Imagine a self-routing datagram trying to get closer to its destination at each step. In fact, that's exactly how the Internet is designed. Self-healing, self-routing, best-effort. Chop messages up into little pieces, and send them off to their destination, and hope for the best that they'll be reassembled correctly at the destination.