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Published yesterday. What's the worst that could happen?

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[-] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago

Turns out knowing the speed of light impacts latency between locations spread across thousands of miles; demonstrated that they never hear of the 500 mile email bug.

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

[-] lepthesr@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago
[-] smeenz 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It's a story from someone working at at university during the early 1990s. They're probably retired by now.

[-] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Hold on, is the speed of light latency actually relevant to this issue? I haven't seen that anywhere.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I haven't heard either, but speed of light latency would certainly be detectable in this application.

The Minnesota ARTCC, for example, covers 300,000 square miles of territory with line-of-sight VHF radio transceivers (and radar). All of those transceivers have to be networked to the single control room with the controllers.

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago
[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I have never failed to read this again when posted. Wild!

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