From: Scott Francis (no email)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 17:44:07 EST
On Feb 1, 2008 2:35 PM, Rod Beck <> wrote:
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> Not at all, there have been cables in the water since 1858 (first
> TransAtlantic cable - telegraph). Right now there are 80 major cables out
> there.
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> Give yourself 170 years of undersea cables and calculate the odds.
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> :)
hm. I wonder what the odds are (I don't have enough figures to do the
math myself):
80 cables worldwide (first time I'd heard that figure, actually)
X square miles of shipping lanes
Y ships in those lanes
Z square miles of overlap between shipping lanes and cable run
# of times, on average, a ship drops anchor outside of a port
maybe there's a lot more overlap in shipping lanes and cable runs than
I thought ...
(or maybe we just got unlucky, and we'll have a nice long period of no
undersea cuts following these :))
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