kalkulat@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoLight-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Homewww.iflscience.comexternal-linkmessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1248arrow-down137file-text
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkLight-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Homewww.iflscience.comkalkulat@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square105fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarearin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoSpeech can’t go faster than the speed of sound, sound waves… But then comes telephone networks
minus-squareorrk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoto be fair, it’s still both slower than the light signals that were then as are now the fastest possible form of data transfer. saying “but someone might invent something” doesn’t mean shit to physics, it’s why we can always with confidence say that Perpetumobile are impossible
minus-squarearin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoYou’re missing the point
minus-squareorrk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agono, I don’t think I am, unless you want to make the argument that infinite free energy is just 1…n brilliant inventor(s) away
Speech can’t go faster than the speed of sound, sound waves… But then comes telephone networks
to be fair, it’s still both slower than the light signals that were then as are now the fastest possible form of data transfer.
saying “but someone might invent something” doesn’t mean shit to physics, it’s why we can always with confidence say that Perpetumobile are impossible
You’re missing the point
no, I don’t think I am, unless you want to make the argument that infinite free energy is just 1…n brilliant inventor(s) away