SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 22 days agoIf Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite?message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up180file-text
arrow-up180message-squareIf Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite?SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 22 days agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·22 days agoNot across oceans though. Earth is curved.
minus-squareSnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·22 days ago Not across oceans though. Earth is curved. /c/flatearthers
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 days agoNot just curved, but curved quite substantially, despite what your eyes may tell you. At eye level on a flat plain you can only see about 3 miles due to the curvature. The closest points across the Atlantic are 1,770 miles apart.
minus-squareDMBFFF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-222 days agoAt 10 meters, line-of-sight is over 10 km. From a jet traveling at 1 km, line-of-sight is over 100 km.
Not across oceans though. Earth is curved.
/c/flatearthers
Not just curved, but curved quite substantially, despite what your eyes may tell you. At eye level on a flat plain you can only see about 3 miles due to the curvature. The closest points across the Atlantic are 1,770 miles apart.
At 10 meters, line-of-sight is over 10 km.
From a jet traveling at 1 km, line-of-sight is over 100 km.