How fast can we communicate with light and radio waves?
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I’m pretty forgiving about reading mildly inaccurate physics stuff, especially when it’s in science fiction stories, but every once in a while I read a real zinger that nearly causes me…

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it’s undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.

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Basically confusing bandwidth and latency. As far as speed it all depends on what media.

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