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Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So it's fine if an article says Space X develops a new rocket that travels 100x faster than a car?

Because that implies a breakthrough when it's actually not significantly faster than other rockets: it's the speed needed to reach the ISS.

10X faster than existing fiber would be accurate reporting. Especially given that there are labs that have transmitted at peta bit speeds over optical already. So terabit isn't significant, only his method.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those are two completely unrelated things.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then give me a related analogy you would accept and I'll easily twist it into a misleading comparison exactly the article did.

How about this, "British Telecom develops high speed internet 1700x faster than previous Internet service technology. Availability is today!"

The above statement is completely true.

Comparing to home Internet when it isn't home Internet technology is misleading. Ignoring that there are already faster optical Internet speeds in other labs around the world is misleading.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“A bus on average can hold ten times as many passengers as private vehicles.”

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Except that isn’t the case here. It’s completely different technology that transfers the data. So it’s comparing a train to a car.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The vast majority of consumers don’t understand the technology being used at any point in worldwide infrastructure, many times including the tech in their own home.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Okay.