• arin@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Speech can’t go faster than the speed of sound, sound waves… But then comes telephone networks

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      11 months ago

      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

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          11 months ago

          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