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by danteembermage 3920 days ago
Just for fun!

My thought was how about a HFT microwave style network: https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-ba...

So I checked the distance from the Keys to Havanna: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

Which turned out to be 2500 meters via this: http://www.hamuniverse.com/lineofsightcalculator.html

It's four times larger than the largest non-skyscraper (a TV tower in North Dakota): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_...

So sadly we cannot beam Netflix or anything else to our entrepreneurial hacker Mr. Weekly Packet. Added incentive to fund space elevator research?

3 comments

You "only" need about 650m elevation if you place an equally tall tower at both places. Sadly neither Key West nor Havana has any tall mountains nearby either
Repeater boat in international waters?
High bandwidth satellite spot beam down links would work.