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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"?
It is how "fast" they can transfer x amount of information. Not how fast the material being used to encode information can move through space.