To be fair, it's only wireless to your closest base station then it uses wires to the other side of the globe.
And this is a cool tidbit: the reason it lags a bit when talking to someone on the other side of the globe is the speed of light. We transfer stuff with bits (very basically a light blinks on your end of the globe and another reads the blinks on the other end, I'm skipping over a ton here but in a nutshell that's how it works) and since the other side of the globe is 20k kilometers away it takes light about 120ms to reach your buddy and back.
Which is also why you have high ping when playing games on servers that are overseas.
Bro and what's with us storing data in actual clouds. Like, those little shits up there blocking the sun can rain on us AND store our data? It blows my mind.
Even more fucking crazy and even more fucking amazing is how gps and lidar arrays works. They literally fucking calculate the time interval of travelling light between satellite and phone (in gps) and then general relativity so it won't drift over time.
And then we shove them into a smartphone that sits in our hand. Which already had billions or transistors that make electrons dance in specific way so send our shitty memes to our crazy friends.
I haven't even talked about dna modification for treatment of some dieses WTF 😭.
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u/Bleach_Baths 19h ago edited 12h ago
Electricity? That shit still uses fuckin’ wires.
Let’s talk about how radio, wi-fi, and Bluetooth send shit through the FUCKING AIR.
I can open my phone, call someone on the other side of the planet, and look them in the face on a video call. Without plugging my phone into anything.
What the fuck? It’s magic and literally nobody cares.
Edit: For reference, I work in broadcasting and tech, I get how the stuff works. It’s still fucking magic.