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To: KevinB

Yes, IF you are linked to a geosynchronous satellite. Those are a LONG ways up.

If you can communicate through a swarm of close-in low earth orbit satellites, the latency is unnoticeable.


29 posted on 05/19/2018 9:16:26 AM PDT by null and void (Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
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To: null and void

Geosynchronous are, I believe, 23,000 miles up.


33 posted on 05/19/2018 9:28:17 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: null and void

‘Tis only about 45,000 miles round trip.

About .25 second


74 posted on 05/19/2018 7:18:35 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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