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Speed of Light Measurement Using Ping

Posted by timothy on from the noise-assisted-sub-threshold-signal-detection dept.

Thomas Colthurst writes "You've no doubt already read the story of ping, but have you ever used it to measure the speed of light?" Here's a case where all that cat5 on college campuses can actually be used for education ;)

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  1. I thought this comment was promising by JustAnotherReader · · Score: 1, Troll
    From the PDF file explaining their experiment:

    Software: We took data while running Linux on both computers. Although it should be possible to do this experiment with the new release of ping for Windows, because the authors were unfamiliar with Windows, Linux was chosen.

    Unfamilier with Windows? Where's my checkbook? I want to send my kids to this school! That's not sarcasm, I mean it. I think the fact that the teachers and students were more familar with Linux than Windows is awesome!