Does pushing a long steel rod transmit force faster than light?

[Yapper]

Say I have a solid rod of steel and I push one end, does the other end move near instantaneously?

As an extreme, say I had a solid rod extending from two space stations very far apart, if I pushed the rod perfectly perpendicular to the face of the rod, would the time difference between when I pushed the rod and when the other end of the rod moved be less then it would take a beam of light to travel between stations(faster than light communication)? I know there is stretching and compressing that would occur but still...

This might be a stupid question, but I just thought about it and wanted to get an answer?

 

[russ_watters]

Any impulse you send through any rod will travel at the speed of sound in that rod. While that may be thousands of miles per hour, its well below the speed of light.

 

[Yapper]

I thought that would be the case, oh well. Thanks for the assistance