it was just an off the cuff remark really, don't read too much into it—but

if the internet falls apart / balkanizes there wouldn't be such coordination, and not really a need to be able to address everything because you can't reach everything

same with space travel and light-speed delays and relativistic communication 

 Ok 😂 

 store and forward networks are the longterm future. http://www.nncpgo.org/ 

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