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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's weird to say that light travels faster than information, because light is information. In other words, top speed for information IS speed of light.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I think that's just the wording. My interpretation of that is any satellite or space probe sending back readings to Earth wouldn't be faster than the sun visually disappearing from the sky. Even with the information being transmitted at the speed of light, there's always going to be some sort of processing delay, along with the limited bandwidth of the transmission.