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minus-squarexwolpertinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up60·2 months ago“This meme was brought to you through a single piece of glass several thousand miles long, at the bottom of the ocean”
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 months agoUndersea cables do have repeater stations, but your point still stands because those are also an engineering marvel.
minus-squareDanVctr@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months agoUndersea fiber optic Internet trunk lines, for anyone who missed the joke
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 month agoSingle piece of glass that runs on electric pulses which travel trough a neatly arranged mineral structure.
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoMore like light pulses travelling through an amorphous silicon dioxide mineral structure, but apart from that you’re entirely right.
“This meme was brought to you through a single piece of glass several thousand miles long, at the bottom of the ocean”
Undersea cables do have repeater stations, but your point still stands because those are also an engineering marvel.
Undersea fiber optic Internet trunk lines, for anyone who missed the joke
Single piece of glass that runs on electric pulses which travel trough a neatly arranged mineral structure.
More like light pulses travelling through an amorphous silicon dioxide mineral structure, but apart from that you’re entirely right.