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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.

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  1. No Shit? by Elvis77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No Shit?

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    The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed (SK)
    1. Re:No Shit? by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny

      Shitty Internet Connection (TM)

      Feeling flush?

      NetCrap Confirms Italian Internet service is shittiest.

      Italian Internet service - new get your pr0n with Smell-O-Rama; special non-virtual downloads for those into scat!

      Customer: My internet is backed up!
      CSR: Have you tried Imodium?

      Customer: My internet is intermittent.
      CSR: You're out of balance upstream/downstream. Now that you have fiber in your sewer, you need more fiber in your diet.

  2. Re:In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Meanwhile, after the french heard of the situation, the french army secured rubber padding to their weapons so they will retain their value if dropped in an attempt to surrender.

    No longer will they have to run the disclaimer in the ad for surplus guns for sale, "never been fired but dropped at least once".

  3. Come on it's just laying cable in the sewers. by antifoidulus · · Score: 2, Funny

    How many of us cannot say the same? Esp. after all-you-can-eat night down at the Burrito King.

  4. You'll probably by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...get a shit connection. There, I said it.

  5. Load of Crap... by T-Bucket · · Score: 2, Funny

    A sewer submarine? That's a load of crap...

  6. Fiber in the sewer systems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course, the other way to get more fibre in the system bran muffins.

  7. Great.. by FrostedWheat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even mutant turtles get better broadband than me.

  8. Surely that should have been "lays cable"? by kenevel · · Score: 2, Funny

    geddit?

  9. In soviet Italy... by migla · · Score: 5, Funny

    In soviet Italy, the crap is full of internet.

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    Some of my favourite people are from th US; Vonnegut, Chomsky, Bill Hicks.
  10. Re:Slashdotted by solevita · · Score: 2, Funny

    it seems to be slashdotted

    I'm sure there's going to be a lot of band jokes coming about "blocked tubes" and the like.

  11. Re:An Italian Italian company? by Thanshin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Their pizzas are spherical.

  12. Please tag this story "it" by Spacezilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please tag this story "it", so it's easier to find other stories about Italy later.

  13. 5M depth and 2km/h, says the spec by Kupfernigk · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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    From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
  14. I think the word you're looking for... by jonaskoelker · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  15. Cable repair guy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's all fun and games until the cable breaks and someone has to swim in there and fix it.

  16. poor little Italian hobby company webserver by funkboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    didn't stand a chance against a slashdotting...