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dvdfvo
4049 days ago
Yes. A difference of 4 orders of magnitude.
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burnte
4049 days ago
It's actually less than one order of magnitude. If it were variable from 6 to 60 then it'd be a full order of magnitude, but never four.
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sfilipov
4049 days ago
I believe he meant transporting information compared to transporting physical goods to Mars. The first takes minutes, the other - hundreds of days.
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dvdfvo
4048 days ago
Yes. I though it was obvious from the context of my parent comment.
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napoleond
4049 days ago
I assume they mean from ~200ms to ~20min (i.e. comparing to Earth RTT), which is indeed 4 orders of magnitude.
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