How can merfolks stream video in a way much similar to our WiFi but underwater?
Right now merfolks are totally envious of us watching a live stream video of cat(fight) via WiFi or satellite internet, ok ok I get it's not the speed but its latency... Urrrr. Nevermind that I sincerely hope that the merfolks can receive WiFi but obviously the signal doesn't penetrate far underwater, any solution to transmit a signal at least matching our WiFi in both strength and coverage without divine intervention and breaking a bank? Note: just work on the transmission of signal, my merfolks can take care of the transmitting and receiving ends themselves.
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The idea here is that instead of moving through the water like sound or EM waves, the waves here are generated in the ocean floor in the Local Comms-Node, and come out to whomever wants to connect to the system. A simple tranciever connected to the I-Pod, Cephalopod or whatever would be dropped to the ocean floor (analogous to a Wi-Fi aerial), and you're a handshake away from an afternoon of newsfeeds, browsing Fishbook or the Deep-Trench web of minnow porn and government's dirty secrets:
The S-wave moves as a shear or transverse wave, so motion is perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation.
Propagation of a spherical S-wave in a 2d grid (empirical model):
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