Submarine Cable Map 2014
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Submarine Cable Map 2014
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#2It still amazes me that we laid giant bundles of cabling at the bottom of the ocean and they're as reliable as they are.
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#3Poor New Zealand!
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#5Does each cable actually lie at the sea bed? What if the route comes across a really deep part of the ocean?
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#6I recommend 'A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable' by John Steele Gordon. [1]
From description,
"But in 1866, the Old and New Worlds were united by the successful laying of a cable across the Atlantic. John Steele Gordon's book chronicles this extraordinary achievement -- the brainchild of American businessman Cyrus Field and one of the greatest engineering feats of the nineteenth century. An epic struggle, it required a decade of effort, numerous failed attempts, millions of dollars in capital, a near disaster at sea, the overcoming of seemingly insurmountable technological problems, and uncommon physical, financial, and intellectual courage."
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#7It still amazes me that we laid giant bundles of cabling at the bottom of the ocean and they're as reliable as they are.
Especially given the first one laid in 1850 failed within hours http://atlantic-cable.com/stamps/Cableships/indexstc.htm
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#8Hard to imagine NSA intercepts most of that.
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#9Does anyone know of a map where I can select two locations and find the shortest path (via submarine cable, obviously) between them?
By the way, this is a nice one. Happy to see that I can scroll indefinitely in one direction.
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#10Hard to imagine NSA intercepts most of that.
Really?