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: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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