Originally Posted by DogsBolx
...it really doesn't work like that.
Imagine a narrow tube stretched from London to New York. The bore diameter is the size of a dried pea. The tube is completely filled with dried peas (electrons). Then an extra dried pea (electron) is slowly shoved into the end at London. At the other end in New York, a dried pea immediately but slowly emerges. Movement is slow but action is immediate.
Dogs
Likewise... what is the speed of bleed air? Or hydraulic fluid?
10 cm in a tick is something that limits the size of a computer + external devices... Many people have managed to incorporate several trips to geostationary orbit and back in their applications, through internet links.