What about those -- I assume successful -- experiments to fire
neutrinos straight through the earth as a communications medium?
Not sure what the bandwidth of a neutrino stream is.
On March 23, 2012 at 12:31 al...@qix.co.uk (Aled Morris) wrote:
> On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote:
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> > All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed.
> > As it stands, it takes roughly 230 milliseconds for a packet to go from
> > London to Tokyo; the new cables will reduce this by 30% to 170ms. This
> > speed-up will be gained by virtue of a much shorter run:
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> If they could armor the cable sufficiently perhaps they could drill the
> straigh line path through the Earth's crust (mantle and outer core) and do
> London-Tokyo in less than 10,000km.
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> Aled
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