• @xwolpertinger
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    612 months ago

    “This meme was brought to you through a single piece of glass several thousand miles long, at the bottom of the ocean”

    • @[email protected]
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      202 months ago

      Undersea cables do have repeater stations, but your point still stands because those are also an engineering marvel.

    • @SkunkWorkz
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      2 months ago

      Single piece of glass that runs on electric pulses which travel trough a neatly arranged mineral structure.

      • @Aceticon
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        22 months ago

        More like light pulses travelling through an amorphous silicon dioxide mineral structure, but apart from that you’re entirely right.