Re: SPS/Pulsars

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From: "B Lin" <lin@rxkinetix.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 7:05 PM
Subject: RE: SPS/Pulsars

> Another possibility, is that instead of ships (you don't really need a
big
regular drive, just and FTL drive) you have ummanned pods that hop back
and
forth every so often (once a day, hourly or more frequent.) Depending on
how
cheap you can make FTL drives, this might be a viable option.  It would
put
communication rates back to what it was at the turn of the 20th century
across the Atlantic - most mail would be sent by steamer ship, but some
high
priority stuff could be sent by short-range wireless from station to
station
or ship to ship.

IIRC transatlantic telegraph cables were in use before WWI.

Greetings