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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.
No Shit?
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed (SK)
...get a shit connection. There, I said it.
Of course, the other way to get more fibre in the system bran muffins.
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.
Even mutant turtles get better broadband than me.
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
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.
Please tag this story "it", so it's easier to find other stories about Italy later.
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.
It's all fun and games until the cable breaks and someone has to swim in there and fix it.
didn't stand a chance against a slashdotting...
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
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