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If they can text everyone about an Amber Alert dozens of miles away, they can text everyone about an incoming earthquake. No sense how this doesn't exist yet.
by thatswrong0 9y ago
If they can text everyone about an Amber Alert dozens of miles away, they can text everyone about an incoming earthquake. No sense how this doesn't exist yet.
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- Piskvorrr 9y agoLatency. With Amber alerts, a latency of tens of seconds (not unusual for mass text message) is irrelevant; with earthquake, the seismic waves can overtake the messaging queue. (Computation itself might be happening near speed of light, high-level communication protocols in general pas through thousands of buffers)