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RC Submarine Lays Fiber Through Sewers In Italy
Francesco Fondi writes "An Italian Company is using RC scale model submarines to lay fiber through Milan's sewage system. The RC submarine used is the Neptune SB-1, produced by Taiwanese company Thunder Tiger. It costs ca $600 in US hobby shops." In Italian, but the pictures speak for themselves.
Upon seeing the submarine most of the italian army surrendered on account of being surrendered.
I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it -- Groucho Marx
No Shit?
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed (SK)
I always thought that would be a good way to construct a community driven "Guerilla Net", that flouted the laws that seek to control our communications systems.
The other idea was to build solar powered WiFi meshing routers and attach strong magnets to them. A radio controlled helicopter would then be used to attach them to inaccessible places on high metallic structures, where they would be very difficult to remove.
There was an article about this sort of thing in Raleigh the other day.
Here's the link:
http://news14.com/Default.aspx?ArID=611427
How many of us cannot say the same? Esp. after all-you-can-eat night down at the Burrito King.
Monstar L
...get a shit connection. There, I said it.
A sewer submarine? That's a load of crap...
IS that like Italian^2? More Italian than Italians? Able to leap across piazzas in a single bound?
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
Of course, the other way to get more fibre in the system bran muffins.
Well, I suppose they had to use a Roman Catholic submarine if they wanted to lay cables under the Vatican. Seriously, it shows that if the protestant fundies get aggressive then the Pope is seriously tooled up and ready to take them on.
IPoPoop?
This makes sense, I have been using RC 4wheel drive cars to run cable under craw spaces and in some cases, across long stretches of drop ceilings for a couple of years now. The great thing is that I can deduct toys from my taxes.
http://www.google.com/tisp/
Even mutant turtles get better broadband than me.
Did anyone who got a chance at reading see who the company is? I live in Milan and IIRC there aren't many that are laying fiber here. The biggest one was the ex-monopolist Telecom Italia, which stopped around the half of the nineties, and then the work was continued by other companies.
A CC-licensed illustrated horror novel
geddit?
In soviet Italy, the crap is full of internet.
Some of my favourite people are from th US; Vonnegut, Chomsky, Bill Hicks.
If only the pictures would load, it seems to be slashdotted.
Google cache link: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:phzPunjGi58J:www.hobbymedia.it/14893/sottomarino-radiocomandato+http://www.hobbymedia.it/14893/sottomarino-radiocomandato&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
That's going to give a really shitty connection.
DYWYPI?
Anyone got a mirror? I'm trying to ready this at work and WenSense is blocking it (swimsuits or something...)
thanks for the link. How does it let go of the cable?
> In Italian, but the pictures speak for themselves.
Yeah the pictures are probably doing a lot of hand waving and gesticulating.
And right now they're apparently screaming about "slashdot" while doing so.
Here you go =)
http://209.85.229.132/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=cache:http://www.hobbymedia.it/14893/sottomarino-radiocomandato&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Quick translation...
** Neptune, the radio-controlled submarine from Sabattinicars, lays ADSL cables in sewers
The July issue of Focus magazine contains an interesting piece on the use of Thunder TigerNeptune submarine (distributed in Italy by SabattiniCars) to lay ADSL cables through the sewage network. Cristoforo Massari, a physicist employed by the council of Milan, remarks that this system makes it possible to reach any building or house without any excavating effort, saving a lot of money. And to think that someone still argues that modelmaking is a useless hobby! [sic]
-- Let's go Viridian.
The site appears to be down... is Slashdot evolving into a DDOS trigger?
... if "urine" Italy, you will get faster Internet - though I wonder if that means the ISP have bigger "logs".
And I don't envy the guy who has to clean the R/C submarines afterwards, either!
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
I think the Italians might ask Google about what they learned when they did it:
http://www.google.com/tisp/
I especially like this one:
http://www.google.com/tisp/images/tisp_diagram.gif
Please tag this story "it", so it's easier to find other stories about Italy later.
I want one. No, I want two. Not to lay cables through sewers, just to scare our local canoeists senseless, as a payback for all the times they've steered straight under my bow and scared the shit out of me.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of band jokes coming about "blocked tubes" and the like.
Instead of traffic congestion, we will have traffic constipation.
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I can't connect, it says "error establishing database connection", I'm gonna guess this is another instance of a server overloading thanks to the amount of people connecting from a link on slashdot. Maybe once there's a few more new stories posted, people will stop looking at this one for long enough for me to load the images.
Why lie when you can just make up stuff and claim it to be true?
"to lay a cable" is slang in Norway for taking a dump. We also quite frequently use the phrase "network constipation".
Fiber or not, it's still gonna be one crappy internet.
RC is not a toy! it is, like a eco friendly stuff. with some 14V LiPo+brushless engine they could lay even undersea cable at 50mph!
God's gift to chicks
Shouldn't that read "RC Submarine Lays Cable Through Sewers In Italy?".
http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html :P
All I can say is that Phillipe "The Mouse" Gaston must be careful not to get entangled in those cables, or get embroiled in a fight with one of the subs, next time he escapes via sewers. (OK, OK, so my geography and history sux, but the facts should never subtract from a good Hollywood story.)
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
So Italians will start seeing ethernet ports in their toilet seats? Maybe then going for a better audio system... Before you know it, all Italian toilets will be totally AWESOME with LED lights an all of that! Laptop sessions in the bathroom will never be the same.
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Youtube Promo Video for Thunder-Tiger's Neptune -- shows the insides as well as some shots of it doing it's thing...
A whole generation of new "It Came From The Sewer" urban legends is spawning in the dark even as we speak.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
It's all fun and games until the cable breaks and someone has to swim in there and fix it.
Let's hope it doesn't meet one of these
didn't stand a chance against a slashdotting...
A guy I worked with (same company, different market) used to use an RC car to run pull string to run cat5, fiber, coax, whatever. Its not all that uncommon. Some of you might be surprised to know that they sell a cross bow with a fishing reel for running cable also.
What surprises me is that the sub can negotiate the sewer with all that shit in there. You would think the prop would have issues.
It says "Database Error" - that's English!
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Obviously, since many of the pictures (on the rest of the page) contain pretty girls :)
Why, yes! I AM new here.
WTH? These $600 toy submarines will be $60,000 Monday!
Good R/C controller and receiver = $150.
"Good" remote flash controller for cameras = $600 And this has probably 1/10th of the input cost as the R/C airplane controller.
How do they keep the fiber from rotting? Sewers contain all sorts of household chemicals, in addition to biological waste.
This recalls Google's Toilet ISP April Fool's prank. But there was actually a broadband-via-sewer called CityNet, which raised $375 million back in 2001. It also used robots to run the cabling. This story recaps that initiative, and can serve as topical reading while TFA is Slashdotted.
RichM
Data Center Knowledge
The ferret pulled string through the pipes and that was used to pull rope which then was used to pull the cables through. I have heard that the same trick was used in the 1800's for telegraph cables.
http://www.tiger.com.tw/product/5220-K.html
They're using their grammar skills there.
Radio controlled - under water?
Yes. Sea water is a lot more conductive than fresh water, so it blocks radio (except VLF...) more efficiently. Fresh water - well, put it like this, does your cell phone work when it's raining?
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
Well, that's a first.
He appears to be stacking his cabinet. In other countries, they are just corrupt friends on the take. But in italy, they are putting ppl in that are fun to be taken. All in all, I think that I prefer his, since he is in the open about it. Heck, the man always has a good women behind and beside him.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
All those charges for piping and nothing being there underground at all.
And now, the jig will be up for them when the robot discovers there are no sewers there!
What happens when you need to call Roto-Rooter?
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
http://www.h2onetworksdarkfibre.com/fs-focus-system.php
Maybe it was targeted advertising, but I wanted to learn more about the RC trucks being advertised in the side-panels. They were slightly obscured by the "model".
It is not diving into the sea, so marine is not right. Subpiss or subturd might be a better name for the craft.
Who pays after Rotor Rooter cleans out a blockage?
Can someone please explain the reference for this joke.
What joke? We're all serious people here.
And yeah, this whole cable in the sewer thing is what's making internet content so filthy.
In the original Blue Man Group presentation, "Tubes", there was an analogy made between the Internet and the sewer system, and it really was a "series of tubes". Maybe this show inspired Alaska Senator Ted Stevens' analogy.
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Great movie! It was directed by Sir Carol Reek.
"The Turd Man", starring Joseph Cottonelle, and Orson Wellies.
Harry Lime spreads his disinfectant in the outhouse, and Holly Oldman takes refuge in a ferris wheel.
Migod, I'm dealing with children here...they probably don't even know what a "Zither" is.
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- aqk
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2003/09/08