• xwolpertinger@lemmy.world
    61·
    2 months ago

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

    • ayyy
      20·
      2 months ago

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

    • DanVctr
      12·
      2 months ago

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

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

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

      • Aceticon@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

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