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by markild 4924 days ago
I know how this works, but it's quite depressing to see the "Packet roundtrip CA to Netherlands" unchanged throughout the years.
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As [1] suggests, the best possible time for that distance would still be 82 ms.

[1]: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=as+the+crow+flies+from+...

54 ms for neutrinos taking the chord through the Earth (using 0.22 from your result). (That's only 4ms faster than light through vacuum along the great circle. Disappointing.)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+*+sin+%280.5+*+0.22+*...

What, are we not allowed to be depressed that 10 years later we are still tied down by physics?