> But there's no way to reliably get information to all people within ten seconds. This is HN, right? Come on folks. If I can send packs transcontinental and b

> But there's no way to reliably get information to all people within ten seconds. This is HN, right? Come on folks. If I can send packs transcontinental and back in 100ms, then you can get a message out to the people of CA in under 10s. This is not a moon shot project. Our entire telecomm infrastructure operates in ms increments, not 10s increments. Now, if only the SF startups could work on something useful like this, rather than yet another cat video app. You could even show ads for home repair companies and insurance adjusters during the warning/quake.