Again, thank you for your reply.

>if you are in a such remote area that you can't even run a mobile LN node

It is not a thought experiment about a node being in a remote area. To the contrary. It is a thought experiment about where exactly the "edge" of the network even is, whether we can safely push lightning and lightning payments out to the edge. 

But I suppose I did not spell it out that way and can understand how you interpreted it.

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As I said, if you are in a such remote area that you can't even run a mobile LN node like Breez, Blixt, SBW, Nayuta, Electrum... I don't know why do you want to complicate so much.
If you are in a such remote area, you will not have anyway where to spend your bitcoins, not even online. You will be more focused on shelter, water, food, security than... internet and bitcoin.

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thought experiment: how to keep full node in sync without traditional internet?

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I realize that anything which can encode information (such as smoke signals) could technically "work," but I would like to know which is the most practical and most likely to be adopted/used.