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Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you k... by kragen on Saturday March 29, 2025 @05:03PM (#43518723)
This is what Shannon disproved in the paper that founded information theory. It never becomes impossible, even at a fixed signal power; the noise reduces the channel capacity, but never to zero.

https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...

Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you k... by lovich on Saturday March 29, 2025 @05:33PM (#43518911)
Ok, I’ll retract my statement from “impossible” to “what the layman would refer to as impossible when you take into account resource constraints”
Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you k... by kragen on Saturday March 29, 2025 @06:49PM (#43519436)
The layman, almost by definition, would refer to most things as impossible until he sees them done; then he takes them for granted because he has no idea how difficult they were. His opinion about the difficulty or resource requirements of any feat is worthless.
Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you k... by lovich on Saturday March 29, 2025 @06:59PM (#43519500)
I disagree