On the observation deck was a tarp-covered signal light, which Burke, an ex-Navy lieutenant, likes to flash at passing ships.
So it's not the journey that's slowing things down, it's the conversion from electronic signal to light and light back to electronic signal.
The path for sending the light signal also makes it possible for delivering content.
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The light signal is consisted of a blinking pattern that flickers too fast for humans to see.
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All that remained was a little bit of left-over starlight, plus the Dopplershifted signal of the light from the planet.
It added that allowing smoking on set could "signal a green light for much more widespread use of smoking in productions".
This light signal can then be converted back to sounds we understand.
In another experiment the researchers wake up sleeping mice by sending a light signal to the hypothalamus, the brain's controller of sleep-wake cycles.
And they may also allow the development of purely optical switches, which would eliminate the need to convert a light signal into an electronic one before such switching can be accomplished.
Right now, cross-connects have to convert light impulses into electrons before switching a signal and sending it back out as light.
This new wireless remote system operates from a radio signal rather than infrared light, dramatically increasing functionality and range.
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Cars faced off on a two-lane, aluminum track, with a little red light blinking to signal who won.
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The miniaturization of pixel size impacts performance of light sensitivity and signal to noise ratio (SNR) in today's 1.12 micrometer pixel image sensors.
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Profits ultimately provide entrepreneurs with knowledge and light, plus they signal to investors which entrepreneurs to back.
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Converting them into photons requires costly computers, or switches, that modulate lasers so that light can carry the signal.
Early versions split the signal into eight wavelengths of different colors of light.
That signal will enable warfighters in armored vehicles and light trucks to transmit information at a rate in excess of two megabits per second over long distances despite the presence of geographical obstacles that often block communications.
The latency cannot be less than the distance the electromagnetic signal has to travel divided by the speed of light.
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But instead of producing an electrical signal when it is tickled, the optical nose sneezes light.
The glow of Mombasa fades into the night behind us as our train clatters past derelict signal boxes and a decaying station lit by the feeble light of a paraffin lamp.
Slowing down light may have many practical uses in communications, signal processing, television displays and night-vision devices.
The mirrors contain the light produced by the stimulated emission and thus amplify the signal.
Researchers outfitted rats with goggles that flashed a light in one of the animal's eyes to signal the rat to lick a spout in order to receive a drop of water.
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They began to search actively for the signal, eventually achieving perfect scores in tracking and identifying the correct location of the invisible light source.
By implanting a device on the retina that receives a signal from the eyeglass-mounted camera, those cells can be stimulated as if receiving light, causing them to transmit an image to the brain.
The Signal can bring real-time voter analysis whereas polls can take weeks to bring such information light, he says.
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Far better to use a broadcast signal, which we can target at a specific star, and which moves at the speed of light.
Light striking this detector liberates electrons from some of the silicon atoms, producing an electrical signal that is converted by the chip's electronics into a picture.
In the case of the Argus II, the bionic eye or more accurately, the artificial retina, will turn darkness into light through a system comprised of electronics in the eye and wearable technology which wirelessly transmits a signal to the implant in the eye that lets the patient see again.
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Once the Zeo headband captures that unique eye signal, and transmits it via sleepstreamonline.com to the second dreamer, it will turn on a colored light where the other dreamer is, to send them a cue too .
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