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Posted on 2/6/20 at 12:18 am to PetroBabich
quote:Serious?
What they be for tho?
Communications. Internet, phones. They've been laying undersea cables since the 1800s for telegraphs.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 12:36 am to Paul Allen
You two homos are annoying as frick
Posted on 2/6/20 at 12:37 am to Korkstand
Fun fact, the Russian navy is working on the capability of cutting undersea cables. Unclear how effective they would be.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 12:52 am to Iron Lion
Iron Lion, dude, don’t be a dick, bro.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:43 am to DavidTheGnome
The UK is like a gap toothed neighbor renting our garage apartment and bumming our internet.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 3:11 am to Jim Rockford
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.
We
Posted on 2/6/20 at 3:41 am to deeprig9
quote: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.
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.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 4:39 am to DavidTheGnome
Interesting. I wish they’d lay something better than dial up Internet to my rural Texas neighborhood.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 4:52 am to PhiTiger1764
The first transatlantic cables were placed under the Atlantic during the 1850s and 60s for the telegraph.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:21 am to PhiTiger1764
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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 on 2/6/20 at 5:35 am to DavidTheGnome
Is Svalbard cable-worthy?
Posted on 2/6/20 at 5:36 am to DavidTheGnome
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 on 2/6/20 at 6:07 am to Tunasntigers92
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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 on 2/6/20 at 6:13 am to Chief Hinge
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None going to or from North Korea
Russia is pretty empty too.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 6:18 am to Tunasntigers92
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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 on 2/6/20 at 6:32 am to Y.A. Tittle
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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 on 2/6/20 at 6:57 am to Jefferson Darcy
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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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