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<DIV><SPAN class=328433506-03032011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If you
want to penetrate the Earth's crust, you can't go past
neutrinos:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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href="http://homepage.mac.com/turder/iblog/B561081935/C663716685/E888999788/index.html">http://homepage.mac.com/turder/iblog/B561081935/C663716685/E888999788/index.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=328433506-03032011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It'll
be awesome if it ever is turned into a product. Makes sharks chewing on cables
or earthquakes disturbing comms a thing of the past.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=328433506-03032011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Not
sure what the latest update is.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=328433506-03032011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>--
Craig Meyers</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>John
Edwards<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, 3 March 2011 4:13 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Damien
Morris<BR><B>Cc:</B> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [AusNOG]
Amazon: And the winner is (not) Sydney<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>On 03/03/2011, at 3:38 PM, Damien Morris wrote:</DIV><BR
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR>Theres your
1ms.<BR><FONT class=Apple-style-span><FONT class=Apple-style-span
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<DIV>I've not seen any DeLoreans parked down there but I was suspecting they'd
managed to harness quantum entanglement to get that faster-than-light
roundtrip.</DIV>
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<DIV>Not sharing the the technology with the rest of us though, typical.</DIV>
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<DIV>I once hired a programmer with a masters degree in Astrophysics, who ruined
my personal vision of quantum entanglement by explaining how it is useless for
faster-than-light communications. Good luck with your own vision.</DIV>
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<DIV>That's not to say that there isn't room for improvement - internal
reflection in singlemode fibre ensures that we're not likely to see signals
propagate faster than 60% of the speed of light. Copper wires are good for 80%,
so maybe there's an opportunity to resurrect some old cable system and
policy-route ICMP across it for laughs.</DIV><BR>
<DIV>With the right advances in technology and magma-resistent fibre, you could
possibly bore under the pacific direct from Sydney to San Francisco, and shave
another 25% off your ping time by not following the curvature of the sea floor -
all though I'm not sure how local councils go with permits to penetrate the
Earth's mantle. Tesla may have figured out a way to do this wirelessly, but he
never got the chance to prove it.</DIV>
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<DIV>John</DIV>
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