<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Nice catch on Lewis's Lambtonian or Tatzelwurmischimagery.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Note in the Wikipedia article that air transmission is faster than fiber optics, albeit subject to more potential interference. The fastest  solution would be an optically straight, hermetically sealed 827-mile tube filled with nothing, nothing at all.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.eckhardt@uni-bonn.de" target="_blank">thomas.eckhardt@uni-bonn.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">"By the summer of 2009 the line had a life of its own, and two thousand men were digging and boring the strange home it needed to survive. (...) The line was just a one-and-a-half-inch-wide hard black plastic tube designed to shelter four hundred hair-thin strands of glass, but it already had the feeling of a living creature, a subterranean reptile, with its peculiar needs and wants. It needed its burrow to be straight, maybe the most insistently straight path ever dug into the earth."<br>
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Michael Lewis, "Flash Boys", 7.<br>
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For what this is about, see:<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_Networks" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_Networks</a><br>
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