Third undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast

CNN ^

[weegee]

Are you plugged in? < /s >

[Cold Heat]

Too much damage on different cables for it to be a accident.

I think mini sub. Iranian origin.

[CarrotAndStick]

Real whorl-tooth shark!

Artist rendering of what supposedly was a real shark. No word if it came equipped with laser beams.

National Geographic:

A coil of teeth caps the lower jaw of a sculpture of a 13-foot (4-meter) whorl-tooth shark, or Helicoprion, a fish genus that lived about 250 million years ago.

Artist Gary Staab depicts the animal’s jaw as something of a spiral conveyor belt, in which new teeth would advance to replace old ones (concealed here by skin). But the true arrangement and purpose of the teeth remains a mystery. Some scientists suggest that it may have operated like a spiked whip, possibly curled underneath the lower jaw like a weaponized elephant trunk.

The shark adds bite to “Bizarre Beasts, Past and Present,” a new exhibition of Staab’s sculptures at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C. (through February 2, 2007). The animals depicted are, or were, all real—testaments to the twists, turns, and blind alleys of evolution.

[Slapshot68]

Could just be incompetence. Sort of like when the cable guy came to repair the line that runs under my lawn and ended up severing my phone service. lol

[mass55th]

Simple explanation: Ahmadinijhad is sabotaging those cables.

[khnyny]

LOL! Where in the world do you come up with this stuff?

[green iguana]

Why would the Iranians disable their own internet system?

[relictele]

To be precise: Tintin ping!

[CarrotAndStick]

From the Internets!

Traffic from US- and Europe-based servers have been somewhat slowed down, here in India.

[nckerr]

Sounds very suspicious to me.

[Cold Heat]

The Mullahs have already closed down all the Internet they can find in Iran. Apparently they view it as dangerous to their security from Western ideology.

They would do this in a heartbeat, and if they could disrupt commerce between the West and their Islamic region, it would be all the better

[Frank_Discussion]

Sounds like some terror cells just lost some eyes and ears...

[Frank_Discussion]

LOL! That’s completely perfect!

[MyFreedomIHoldDear]

Palestinian Information Technology Association ?

[ASOC]

The shallow water parts are armored, the deep water parts are covered with a thick PFTE coating - I have a piece sitting on my desk. About as big around as your thumb....

See http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=170740&seqNum=10 for more data.

As an aside, when I worked on a couple of Alaska to Seattle cable systems, we would see huge voltage swings during every geomagnetic storm. Kinds cool seeing a technology system affected by planetary level events.

[jhpigott]

ping

[Integrityrocks]

Wow. That is interesting stuff. Alaska has one of the highest on-line households per capita in the world and you don’t see many cables going to that State. We use satellites.

[tobyhill]

I noticed that my internet has been running substantially faster.

[weegee]

and they still lack brains.

[LibKill]

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.” Ian Fleming