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Re:Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet by alextingle on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:13PM (#21325379)
Light travels 1000km in under 4ms. What else are you adding to that time?
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Re:Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet by windsurfer on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:51PM (#21325858)
I have updated my comment above. I was off by about an order of magnitude.
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Re:Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet by uoaei on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:30PM (#21325592)
That's true in vacuum. Light traveling through a medium has to reflect off of or absorb/re-emit from everything it bumps into, so it goes slower.
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