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shenmue

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Wed Nov 12, 2014, 05:48 PM Nov 2014

Vienna, Austria: twisted light sent over city

http://m.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29953239

A shiny green beam of light was sent over Vienna, Austria last night.

From the article:

This twisting property could allow very fast communication because light with different amounts of twist, encoding separate channels of information, could be sent simultaneously.
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Vienna, Austria: twisted light sent over city (Original Post) shenmue Nov 2014 OP
And we sink into the Dark Ages Revisited. WhiteTara Nov 2014 #1
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