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Re:Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest by terminalkeys on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:08AM (#46327342)
Not a scientist, but I assume the signal would degrade or mutate over time due to space radiation and other radio waves.
Re:Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest by lxgr on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:26AM (#46327555)
Electromagnetic waves have perfect/lossless superposition, so radiation can’t really degrade a signal that way.

The big limiting factors are free space path loss and noise.

Re:Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest by Y_Y on Friday December 19, 2025 @12:47PM (#46328680)
That's only true in classical electrodynamics, as it happens. If you're in a very strong B-field like you might find near a compact object you'll get nonlinear QED effects.

You can get a low order correction with Euler-Heisenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Heisenberg_Lagra...

Re:Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest by PartiallyTyped on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:14AM (#46327401)
It should be same logic we use for repeaters, so it'll be fine.
Re:Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest by Sesse__ on Friday December 19, 2025 @01:04PM (#46328875)
The logic we typically use for repeaters (EDFA, erbium-doped fiber amplifiers) for long-distance lines amplifies but does not clean noise (so across the oceans, you are very much bound by SNR). And you need one of them every 80 km or so in typical fiber.