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re: A map of undersea internet cables

Posted on 2/5/20 at 11:07 pm to
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
77734 posts
Posted on 2/5/20 at 11:07 pm to
Oh, S! Yes, of course! Along with the lamb truffles it’s going to be a grand time!
Posted by Emteein
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2011
3991 posts
Posted on 2/5/20 at 11:11 pm to

Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
29044 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 12:18 am to
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What they be for tho?
Serious?

Communications. Internet, phones. They've been laying undersea cables since the 1800s for telegraphs.
Posted by Iron Lion
Romulus
Member since Nov 2014
13703 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 12:36 am to
You two homos are annoying as frick
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
104266 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 12:37 am to
Fun fact, the Russian navy is working on the capability of cutting undersea cables. Unclear how effective they would be.
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
77734 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 12:52 am to
Iron Lion, dude, don’t be a dick, bro.
Posted by olgoi khorkhoi
priapism survivor
Member since May 2011
16308 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:43 am to
The UK is like a gap toothed neighbor renting our garage apartment and bumming our internet.
Posted by Bigfishchoupique
Member since Jul 2017
9460 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 3:11 am to
Interesting reading if you look up the history of laying the first transatlantic cables.


We tapped into the USSR ‘s undersea cables off Kamchatka for a long time. They were marked with a regular Do Not Dredge sign.
Posted by HubbaBubba
North of DFW, TX
Member since Oct 2010
50775 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 3:41 am to
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And if you want a hot stock tip... the building they all terminate in, and all the termination and cross connects are owned by a little-known publicly traded company called Equinix, ticker symbol EQIX. Look up "MAE EAST" for further reading.
SpaceX with their Starlink program are going to negatively affect Equinix at some point in the future. Samsung, too, as satellite based Internet services will dominate.
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
22460 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 4:39 am to
Interesting. I wish they’d lay something better than dial up Internet to my rural Texas neighborhood.
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
77942 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 4:52 am to
The first transatlantic cables were placed under the Atlantic during the 1850s and 60s for the telegraph.
Posted by Dudley Humptyfrats
'Murica
Member since Oct 2010
2205 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:08 am to
Should have. Idiot.
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
53509 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:21 am to
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You’re telling me there are actual, physical “internet cables” spanning the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean? And all over the world?

Because consider me fricking shocked if so..


Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
7677 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:35 am to
Is Svalbard cable-worthy?
Posted by YNWA
Member since Nov 2015
7139 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:36 am to
Don't the Russians try and cut these with there subs? I believe I read that's the kind of shithousery they partake in. Outside of fixing US presidential elections and throwing people out windows.
Posted by roguetiger15
Member since Jan 2013
17329 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:07 am to
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Why is there none in the gulf


my somewhat educated guess is because of oil and gas pipelines that run all through the gulf.

Posted by Saintsisit
Member since Jan 2013
5054 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:13 am to
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None going to or from North Korea


Russia is pretty empty too.
Posted by MikeBRLA
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2005
17123 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:18 am to
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Why is there none in the gulf


Because the gulf, by definition, is surrounded by land so there is no need to run cables under water to cross it. It’s much cheaper to run them over land.
Posted by Tempratt
Member since Oct 2013
14902 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:32 am to
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I’m still holding out for the US to Europe tunnel.


That'll be especially cool when there's an under sea earthquake that makes it collapse.
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
33687 posts
Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:57 am to
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I'm about to lay some cable too.


A little peptide will turn that into pipe, son.
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