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Tesla: The greatest hacker of all time
- Hexstream 19y ago"Tesla generates a powerful pulse of electricity, and drains it into the ground. Because the ground is conductive, it doesn't stop. Rather, it spreads out like a radio wave, traveling at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second." And all this time I thought only light travelled at the speed of light :/ While I read that article, I was thinking, what if we found a way to 1. direct the current through the earth to a specific location reliably and 2. managed to represent bits accurately within that current? Free international communication, without networks of cables ;P
- kirubakaran 19y agoRadio wave is electromagnetic wave (aka 'light' in a range of frequency). But "speed of light" in non-vacuum is lower. "direct the current through the earth to a specific location reliably" Earth is not homogenous. I wonder if pointing a low frequency laser into the ground will accomplish anything. It most likely will be refracted in an unpredictable inconsistent way.
- Hexstream 19y agoWell, what if we transmit known data in a strong signal from one end to the other and then compare what was received to what was sent... (insert big hand waving) if we replicate those steps x times, we might be able to map the "interference structure" of the Earth and compensate for that somehow... This is admittedly almost impossibly complicated.
- kirubakaran 19y agoSure but the insides of the earth keep changing right...
- Hexstream 19y agoWe could recalculate the "interference infrastructure" every couple seconds... Remember that we don't need 100% accuracy also; TCP/IP layers reliability on top of unreliability.
- DaniFong 19y agoAlso, an electromagnetic wave is not current, the bulk of which actually travels many many orders of magnitude slower.
- dhimes 19y agoIf we're going this way on hackers, I'd go for Galileo as #1 (although a great case could be made for Archimedes).
- dmoney 19y agoThis gives new meaning to "hack the planet".
- mhartl 19y agoCheck out the movie "The Prestige" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0482571/ http://imdb.com/title/tt0482571/), which (among other things) features David Bowie as Tesla during his time in Colorado Springs.
- msteigerwalt 19y agoI was a little worried about Bowie's performance of Tesla before I saw the movie. In the end, however, I was very pleased.