The Picard ManeuverModern wonders exist
xwolpertinger“This meme was brought to you through a single piece of glass several thousand miles long, at the bottom of the ocean”
Undersea fiber optic Internet trunk lines, for anyone who missed the joke
Undersea cables do have repeater stations, but your point still stands because those are also an engineering marvel.
SkunkWorkzSingle piece of glass that runs on electric pulses which travel trough a neatly arranged mineral structure.
More like light pulses travelling through an amorphous silicon dioxide mineral structure, but apart from that you’re entirely right.