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How To Build a $188M Submarine Cable System
Bevan Slattery writes "PIPE Networks has launched a blog and an online progress report on the construction of its $188M (AU$200M), 6,900-km submarine cable system connecting Sydney (Australia) to Piti (Guam). People can follow the many tasks required to construct a submarine cable and track the project's progress. The daily blog provides unique insight into PPC-1's construction, including for example the different types of cable installed in 'benign' and 'aggressive' seabed conditions."
This whole Guam Cable thing is clearly a front. Everyone knows they're really using the Cable survey as an excuse to search for Japanese War Gold :)
Ok, I admit that everything I know about undersea cables I learnt from Neal Stephenson, but he was right about the undersea cable cutting war, wasn't he?
Welcome to the middle of the 19th century! If you think putting cables under water is exciting, wait until you hear about the "light bulb", the "phonograph" and "chewing gum". You'll probably wet your woolens.
Thank you very little! Now my religion that worships the Tin Sky God has to be disbanded and now I'm out of a job - again!
Well, there's always that plastic lever god. You move it up or down, as the case may be, and your lights come on!
Installing undersea cable: $188M
Getting some dodgy sea captain to snag it with an anchor: a couple of hundred and a case of Scotch.
Watching all the conspiracy loons on teh webz: priceless!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Those pictures remind me of our network cabinets at the office. Do they also have issues with the cables being tangled or mislabeled?
No kidding. I tried to send a 2 over a wireless network once, and it came out looking all distorted. Ever since, it's been all Cat5 for me. When I need to send a high-valued bit, it just works better.
but Darling it's better, down where its wetter, take it from meeeeeee!!
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
Yet another example of government waste! Hasn't anyone told them that submarines already have propellers and therefore don't need a cable system? Just think of the expense of building one of these from the US to North Korea or any other place we'd like to have our subs. One cable cut and the entire fleet would be out of action! I say we should stick with the current "self-propulsion" paradigm until they perfect the underwater slingshot.
Bring on the asteroid