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[–] xwolpertinger@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"This meme was brought to you through a single piece of glass several thousand miles long, at the bottom of the ocean"

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago

Undersea cables do have repeater stations, but your point still stands because those are also an engineering marvel.

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[–] DanVctr@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Undersea fiber optic Internet trunk lines, for anyone who missed the joke

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Single piece of glass that runs on electric pulses which travel trough a neatly arranged mineral structure.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

More like light pulses travelling through an amorphous silicon dioxide mineral structure, but apart from that you're entirely right.

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