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Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed
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#13Lets just quickly blame someone and then make the investigation inconclusive.
The Houthis themselves threatened to cut cables.
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> (if you seriously believe that Russia has blown up its own pipeline in the NATO backwater, we have nothing to discuss).
The only thing to discuss is evidence.
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#15I don’t know enough to speak to the geopolitical issues, but from a technical aspect, repair of this won’t be cheap or fast.
Why? An honest question, I thought undersea cable repair is a common, straightforward procedure.
In this case the repair ship might need some air defense, but US or UK could easily provide that.
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#16Lets just quickly blame someone and then make the investigation inconclusive.
It's US. Or Russia. Or Iran. Or China.
I blame our great leaders who can't figure out that peace is better than war.
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#17I don’t know enough to speak to the geopolitical issues, but from a technical aspect, repair of this won’t be cheap or fast.
Why? An honest question, I thought undersea cable repair is a common, straightforward procedure. In this case the repair ship might need some air defense, but US or UK could easily provide that.
It’s a high risk job even with naval escort. Risk drives up prices.
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#18Wonder if the Spaceship will allow Musk to send up a serious satellite-based backhaul option. Sounds like there'll be some money to be made there, perhaps sooner than anticipated...
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? An honest question, I thought undersea cable repair is a common, straightforward procedure. In this case the repair ship might need some air defense, but US or UK could easily provide that.
It’s a high risk job even with naval escort. Risk drives up prices.
Welding undersea fiber under fire isn't in any of the technicians' job description, so while they say that everybody has a price, it's possible that the bid-ask is wide enough that you could park an Ever Given sideways there and there'd still be room. These folks probably make enough already.
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#20Wonder if the Spaceship will allow Musk to send up a serious satellite-based backhaul option. Sounds like there'll be some money to be made there, perhaps sooner than anticipated...
You mean SpaceX? AFAIK Musk is nothing more but a shareholder at this point. Maybe you mean Gwynne Shotwell