Comment by HDBaseT
6 hours ago
The speed of light is unbelievably slow, not even as a cosmic scale, but on earth.
We cannot play competitive multiplayer games globally, without 300ms ping. I dream of a world playing Black Ops 2 on a original PS3 in 2026 getting into a lobby because latency is low.
Ultimate counterevidence of an benevolent "intelligent designer"
How do you arrive at 300ms?
light is 186k miles per second, the other side of the globe is 12.5k miles away - so 67 ms / 130ms+ round trip in optimum conditions. Add more for network hops and consider that fiber is not quite as fast as vacuum.
300ms feels extremely optimistic coming from my perspective of someone living on an island in SE Asia
For a city that is far away from anywhere:
https://wondernetwork.com/pings/Auckland
Your real world latency is going to be worse.
This is a great example of information taking time:
https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html