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They keep reiterating "faster, faster". But the discussion is "laser" vs. "radio".
Surprise: both travel at the speed of light. Both are the same speed.
Hmmm.
Are they afraid of having to explain "bandwidth"?
When talking communication, most people think of the speed with which a unit quantity of information is transmitted, not the latency of that transmission.
Referring to bandwidth as the speed of a communication system is pretty normal, even for people who know how to use the term bandwidth.
And when that latency goes up from a few millis (from google to you) to, let's say, 10 minutes (from mars to earth), then they would start to notice it :)
True, but with the speed of light being constant as far as we know worrying about it is sort of a moot point