[AusNOG] Amazon: And the winner is (not) Sydney

[Craig Meyers]

If you want to penetrate the Earth's crust, you can't go past neutrinos:
 
http://homepage.mac.com/turder/iblog/B561081935/C663716685/E888999788/in
dex.html
 
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.
 
Not sure what the latest update is.
 
-- Craig Meyers

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[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of John Edwards
Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2011 4:13 PM
To: Damien Morris
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Amazon: And the winner is (not) Sydney




On 03/03/2011, at 3:38 PM, Damien Morris wrote:


		
		Theres your 1ms.
		
		


	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.

	Not sharing the the technology with the rest of us though,
typical.
	
	


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.

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.

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.

John

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