Scientists continue to blow through data transmission records, with the fastest transmission of information between a laser and a single optical chip system now set at 1.8 petabits per second. That's well in excess of the amount of traffic passing across the entire internet each second.
Here's another comparison: the average broadband download speed in the US is 167 megabits per second. You need 1,000 megabits to get to a gigabit, and then 1 million gigabits to get up to 1 petabit.

No matter how you present it, 1.8 petabits is a serious amount of data to transmit in a second.

The supercharged data transfer system is built around a custom-design optical chip, which uses the light from a single infrared laser and splits it into hundreds of frequencies. The frequencies are isolated at fixed distances from each other, like teeth in a comb – hence the name for this setup, which is a frequency comb.

Each 'tooth' on a frequency comb can send its own burst of data, which is how the huge transmission rates are achieved. Using more conventional means, around a thousand lasers would be needed to carry the same number of 1s and 0s.

Alex was right again.

Classic.

If you haven't seen this, make the time to do so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yErKTVdETpw

In 1917 a woman tried to publish a book she claimed was written by Mark Twain's ghost via Ouija board. Mark Twain's daughter sued over this claiming the author would have to either surrender all profits to the estate of Mark Twain or admit that the claim was a fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap_Herron

https://archive.org/details/japherronanovel00haysgoog

Portugal out here cyberbullying the rest of Western Europe

Model of the Orion spacecraft, the project of which was never realized. The model is completely made in Blender, has high detail and one texture set with 4K resolution, which allows you to shoot it close-up for a popular science video.

Project Orion was a study conducted between the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA for the purpose of identifying the efficacy of a starship directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft—nuclear pulse propulsion.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8w3GKm

how plants move through the day

Somebody twitter

Dancing house in Prague, Czech Republic.

National Geographic

This aged well

Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Do people still use Google?

Mocking the so called "conspiracy theorists" who tried to warn you about the dangers of injecting yourself with experimental mRNA technology is all fun and games until you die of an aortic aneurysm.

Two prominent polls released in the past week reveal that Americans’ trust in the mainstream media is at a near all time low, with a significant majority believing that it is a threat to freedom.

https://summit.news/2022/10/26/two-major-new-polls-show-americans-believe-the-media-is-a-threat-to-freedom/

Questions are being asked about the lack of security at Nancy Pelosi’s home after authorities walked back a previous statement that there were three people at the residence, now claiming there were only two – Paul Pelosi and his attacker.

https://summit.news/2022/10/31/questions-continue-to-swirl-at-apparent-lack-of-security-at-pelosi-residence/