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Interactive map of the internet's underwater fibre optic cables

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    Interactive map of the internet's underwater fibre optic cables

    Submarine Cable Map

    Originating article: One Per Cent: Interactive map of the internet's underwater paths

    There's a lot of communication going on between the UK and America and the cables look like tangle of noodles around China. And our Bob talk travels with much quickness through the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. Anyone got a pair of scissors?

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    Thats interesting. Odd how so many terminate in Alaska and other places you wouldn't have expected.

    There was a programme on about a ship laying the cables on Quest the otherday using a plough to bury the cables on the sea bed. The amount of effort going in to it is astounding.
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      #3
      It takes less time to lay transocean fiber cable than get copper phone line from BT

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        #4
        Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
        Odd how so many terminate in Alaska and other places you wouldn't have expected.
        That's expected.

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          #5
          Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
          Thats interesting. Odd how so many terminate in Alaska and other places you wouldn't have expected.

          There was a programme on about a ship laying the cables on Quest the otherday using a plough to bury the cables on the sea bed. The amount of effort going in to it is astounding.
          was that part of the Might Ships series?
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            #6
            Wow, an interesting thread on CUK. I literally don't know what to say ......


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              Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
              Submarine Cable Map

              Originating article: One Per Cent: Interactive map of the internet's underwater paths

              There's a lot of communication going on between the UK and America and the cables look like tangle of noodles around China. And our Bob talk travels with much quickness through the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. Anyone got a pair of scissors?
              I would have thought that attaching cables to submarines would limit their navigational ability.
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                #8
                If it's difficult to go to the bottom of the sea due to pressure of all the weight of water, why don't the cables get crushed?

                I suspect this is just another logic glitch in the matrix.
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by PAH View Post
                  If it's difficult to go to the bottom of the sea due to pressure of all the weight of water, why don't the cables get crushed?

                  I suspect this is just another logic glitch in the matrix.
                  I think they built special tunnels for them to go in.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Chaffinch View Post
                    Wow, an interesting thread on CUK. I literally don't know what to say ......


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