>>14682
>BTW -- you know fiber optic cable is already carrying light -- right?
yep

I am talking about light beam (line of sight, obviously)
satellite based, connection through light beam from satellite to commercial airplane is how you have access to the internet on a commercial air-flight -today-
you may or may not have noticed that almost every commercial aircraft has grown warts on the top of the fuselage

These are domes covering a new generation of light based antennae

o7