Old Fart at Play wrote:

Nick J. wrote:


no great surprise - the backchannel is slow, and the satellite is a
decent fraction of the way to the moon ;-)

Perhaps I've missed a giggle here, but surely the satellite has to be
the same distance away from earth as the moon? :

Not quite.

The moon orbits the earth once a month.
A geostationary satellite orbits once a day
so it has to be much closer.

I wish I could blame alcohol, drugs, or tiredness for that.

But I cannot.

Happy New Year.

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