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…

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1916423

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.

    • joshuanozzi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Finally, basement nerds won’t be pasty any more!

      Seriously, I was more thinking infrared. I don’t know about you but I’m old enough to remember (and to have “enjoyed” helping support coworkers attempts to use) the infrared fad mainly for sending things to printers by sitting the two devices really close together. So fiddly I’d rather just decisively plug in a cable.

      • stravanasu@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yes, I actually remember when (infrared) TV remotes started to circulate…