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Almost all internet traffic is transmitted via submarine cables, which have a total length of around 1.3 million kilometers, or about three times the distance from the Earth to the Moon. Credit: Tyler Morgan-Wall

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Mike Doris3 years ago

Cool. Love the retro look of this map from 2015 from TeleGeography:

Continuity 🇺🇸 🌎🕊✌️🚀🤖☦️3 years ago

Starlink will trump and supercede the cabled internet. Starlink satellite internet is projected to be the first satellite internet provider to equal or even surpass cable internet providers in speed and accessibility

Richard Lewis3 years ago

Will @elonmusk and @SpaceX make this obsolete with Starlink?

Pixel Preet3 years ago

Starlink will make this system look ancient

Rapah Ahrayah3 years ago

Psalms 19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Samurai Jack3 years ago

Soon nearly all internet traffic will be by satellite.

Evil Car Stereo3 years ago

Like to see how they run that.

✨Maximiliaan van Velzen✨3 years ago

Didn’t even know that submarines even hád cables 🧐

Buzz White3 years ago

Why do all depictions of earth make it appear perfectly round instead of its true shape? It's almost as bad as "flat earthers."

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