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Re: glass fiber @ 0.997 c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Tue Mar 26 18:20:27 2013
In-Reply-To: <20130326163642.GL6172@leitl.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:14:10 -0700
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23309-information-superhighway-approaches-light-speed.html
>
> Information superhighway approaches light speed
>
> 18:00 24 March 2013 by Jacob Aron Nothing moves faster than light in a
> vacuum, but large volumes of data can now travel at 99.7 per cent of this
> ultimate speed limit.
Now I guess we find out exactly how much the various financial firms
are willing to pay to shave 0.3 of C off travel time from London to
NYC...
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-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
