A Fiber-Optic Cable To Inner Space

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A Fiber-Optic Cable To Inner Space

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 26, 2003 @10:52PM from the send-down-more-divers dept.

tetraconz writes "The University of Washington has been working on a vast 3000km undersea network to research the ocean floor off the West Coast. From the executive summary: (PDF) "The goal of NEPTUNE is to establish a coherent system of high-speed, submarine communication-control links using fiber-optic cables to connect remote, interactive experimental sites with land-based research laboratories and classrooms." This is an important project to explore the last unknown region of the Earth: the ocean. Check out the project homepage."

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Security, security by jabbadabbadoo · 2003-10-26 23:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Fine. And for security we have Blowfish.
Nemo? by davejenkins · 2003-10-26 23:04 · Score: 4, Funny

That seems like a lot of money just to find one little clown fish...

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Re:3000k's under the keys? by LarsWestergren · 2003-10-26 23:15 · Score: 2, Funny

Yarr, we demand nautical measurment units! For instance, yonder cable be not 3000 kilometers, it be 13667 cable lengths. Give or take a catfish whisker.

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bandwidth... by idsCypher · 2003-10-26 23:17 · Score: 2, Funny

this means that some fish have more bandwidth that me.... damn
1. Re:bandwidth... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-26 23:50 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Unfortunately, for them, it's like that Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meridith. For, you see, fish can't type. Let alone type with one hand while "manipulating hardware" with the other.
obligatory stingray reference by maharg · 2003-10-26 23:32 · Score: 2, Funny

I believe the implementation will bear a superficial resemblance to this

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Re:3000k's under the keys? by c4ffeine · 2003-10-27 00:32 · Score: 1, Funny

No, no, no, it be 1337 millipicolightyears and 3.75 frenchmen, plus the 17th integral of e^x^2 over [2,17i] , multiplied by the score of this post. Sheesh, isn't it easy? Get your units right!

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And I still can't get DSL!? by dphoenix · 2003-10-27 00:33 · Score: 1, Funny

Alright, I guess I have new ammunition for Qwest the next time I call them. They're still telling I'm too far to get DSL!

Now I can't even say that my dialup is "slower than a turtle!" argh!
Re:Kazaa by tambo · 2003-10-27 00:53 · Score: 3, Funny

3000km of fiber is gonna give those deep-sea researchers some awful CounterStrike lag. - David Stein

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