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Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home (www.iflscience.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by kalkulat to c/technology
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[–] arin 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Speech can't go faster than the speed of sound, sound waves.... But then comes telephone networks

[–] orrk 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

to be fair, it's still both slower than the light signals that were then as are now the fastest possible form of data transfer.

saying "but someone might invent something" doesn't mean shit to physics, it's why we can always with confidence say that Perpetumobile are impossible

[–] arin -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You're missing the point

[–] orrk 0 points 11 months ago

no, I don't think I am, unless you want to make the argument that infinite free energy is just 1...n brilliant inventor(s) away