A few hundred miles to the south-west, in Memphis, Tennessee, more landing lights line up across the night sky.

离田纳西州孟斐斯西南几百英里，许多着陆导航灯一字排开，灯光划破天空。

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THE stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and California is virtually empty. There are no islands, no shipping lanes, no human presence for thousands of miles—just sea, sky and rubbish.

夏威夷到加州的之间几千英里太平洋海面空无一岛，没有船舶航线，没有人烟，只有大海、天空和垃圾。

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There are no islands, no shipping lanes, no human presence for thousands of miles-just sea, sky and rubbish.

绵延数公里，既无海岛航线又无人烟——放眼望去，只有大海、天空以及，垃圾。

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Big geostationary satellites, orbiting 26, 000 miles above the sky, are a lousy two-way synchronous Internet medium.

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At the Minneapolis airport check-in kiosk, I entered my Sky Miles number to bring up my reservation.

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First, GPS units have to pick up extremely faint radio signals from satellites orbiting 12, 000 miles in the sky, and that requires receivers that pull in as broad a swath of spectrum as possible.

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