24 Mar
2012
24 Mar
'12
2 a.m.
On 3/24/12 01:32 , George Bonser wrote:
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.
Current record depth of a borehole is under 12,500 meters which is a bit short of the goal.
Aled
I suggested this once when it was decided that the latency from California to the UK was too high and that I should reduce it. The company wouldn't go for it, though.
Bandwidth delay product has undone many a well laid plan.
G