• Wenjarich
    +3

    Surely over that distance, there is plenty of loose rock etc flying through its path that could create noise in the data? I mean there are pretty big meteorites out there.

    • CDefense7
      +2

      True. Surely it's less dense than buildings, trees and the fact that 50k watts doesn't mean much when you don't have line of sight (Earth curvature) which is, even with the some of the highest towers is only 63 miles.

      Would be interesting to do the math on the density comparison though.

      • Wenjarich
        +2

        I don't know much about sending data over distance I just thought its crazy to need such low amount of power to do so from where it is :P