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 aledm@qix.co.uk (Aled Morris) wrote:
On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
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:
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.
Aled
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