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Except it's not going to space at all. It's just going to the nearest cell phone tower, where the electromagnetic radio waves it's translated into patterns of b
by andreyf 17y ago
Except it's not going to space at all. It's just going to the nearest cell phone tower, where the electromagnetic radio waves it's translated into patterns of blinking lights running through microscopically thin wires of glass, across oceans at the speed of light, into a data center the size of two football fields, and back into the palm of your hand. Oh.