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by m348e912 1650 days ago
>>Light is slow

I am going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on that

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Most stuff in the universe is moving apart faster than light, so yes it’s quite slow. ;)
...and from the perspective of a modern computer and high-speed digital circuits, the speed of light doesn't seem that fast --- light moves only 30cm between each cycle of a 1GHz clock.