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Re:Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma by wongarsu on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:17AM (#27115549)
> something we generally consider effectively "instant"

We are in one of the very few professions where the speed of light is considered annoyingly slow. Just three days ago there was a thread of people lamenting that the closest Hetzner datacenter is about 50 light-milliseconds away

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Re:Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma by pflanze on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:39PM (#27122527)
I don't know enough to say, but it wouldn't surprise me if our speed of thinking (and perhaps also time in general) is indirectly tied to the speed of light; meaning, if the speed of light were faster, we'd be thinking faster, and thus the round trip speed to Hetzner would appear just as annoying. I'll be happy to be corrected.
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