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The telegraph was simultaneously strung right alongside the intercontinental railroad as it was built.

I'd buy Mike's book in a second if I weren't in the middle of a hairy intercontinental move.

The difference between a space launch and an intercontinental ballistic missile is basically intent.

Space launchers and intercontinental ballistic missiles are pretty much the same thing after all.

But 9 hours is already enough for intercontinental flights once we take our the time spent sleeping, etc.

I remember routinely witnessing subsecond intercontinental response time on massive relational database installations as early as 1981.

The VC-10 as a Western four engined large (for the time) narrow body intercontinental jetliner competed directly with the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8.

One could also make a very convincing, if not definitive argument that imperialism enabled slavery (at the intercontinental scale), and that mercantilism supported it.

An intercontinental round trip is in the range of 10-15k miles, right?

This has nothing to do with intercontinental links, its just greed.

Server hosting companies like OVH maintain their own lines or earmarked-guaranteed bandwidth shared-lines (I imagine the intercontinental ones) between their data centers.

You know, that started as a joke, but cut it in half with reusable stages and that's really not too far off for intercontinental overnight delivery.

As more and more research went into stealth as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles, the "flying fast" design thinking began to dwindle due to its expensive flight and maintenance costs.

Experts now say Iran is unlikely to acquire nuclear weapons for eight or 10 years." > 1998: The same week, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reports to Congress that Iran could build an intercontinental ballistic missile – one that could hit the US – within five years.

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