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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by sliverstorm on Sunday August 21, 2011 @09:25PM (#2910885)
This scramjet is not particularly large. A 747 on the other hand, while traveling 20-40x slower, could fit petabytes of data.
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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by Groxx on Sunday August 21, 2011 @11:57PM (#2911238)
Given that, I'd bet a decent-sized freight train, or tanker, would be able to vastly out-do a 747. With worse ping time, but for sheer bandwidth...
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