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Our lemmy messages go through the Mariana Trench along 4000 miles or so long fiber optic cable of 30 000 tons laid at the dark and scary floor of the sea that is like an alien planet to us. (lemm.ee)
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Pyramids are fucking kids toys compared to this shit.

By comparison ISS mere 400 kilometres above us. ~1/10 of the length of this gargantuan cable going through unknown

Truly a megastructure rivalling the sci fi tropes

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[–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

You get my cat photo as a token of goodwill in this planet rankings argument. It was him who made this post after all but now fallen asleep afterwards on the tablet.

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