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A map of all the underwater cables that connect the internet
Vox ^ | March 13, 2015

Posted on 03/15/2015 5:09:59 AM PDT by NYer

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1 posted on 03/15/2015 5:09:59 AM PDT by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...

Connected, ping!


2 posted on 03/15/2015 5:10:39 AM PDT by NYer (Without justice - what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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That’s a lot of tubes.


3 posted on 03/15/2015 5:13:43 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: NYer; CodeToad

Great info, thanks.


4 posted on 03/15/2015 5:24:45 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: NYer

Thanks; I had no idea. I thought it was all done with satellites.


5 posted on 03/15/2015 5:33:41 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're just the bug.)
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To: NYer

Lies, it’s made of tubes.


6 posted on 03/15/2015 5:37:28 AM PDT by arderkrag (The biggest problem faced by any FReeper: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias)
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To: carriage_hill

It was done for a time, but there are serious limits on how much data a satellite can allow to be streamed through it, and limits on speed. Fiber optic direct lines are much, much more faster, and can handle far larger volumes of data.


7 posted on 03/15/2015 5:39:13 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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That’s a lot of tubes.

...

All carrying pictures and videos of cats.


8 posted on 03/15/2015 5:39:22 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: NYer

I can remote into callers computers in Hawaii as if I were there which amazes me as sometimes I cannot connect to people in the same building as I am in....


9 posted on 03/15/2015 5:39:27 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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Here's a back-up plan for your building:


10 posted on 03/15/2015 5:48:07 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're just the bug.)
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To: NYer
My ISP's cable


11 posted on 03/15/2015 5:48:31 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Morpheus2009

Thanks; I had no idea it was that wideapread.


12 posted on 03/15/2015 5:53:19 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're just the bug.)
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LOL!


13 posted on 03/15/2015 6:02:45 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: NYer

Recall the Clinton scheme to sell the rights for trans-Atlantic cable traffic to Terry McAuliffe (now Va governor) for a pittance? (or something like that)

Global crossing scandal. http://www.happinessonline.org/InfectiousGreed/p18.htm


14 posted on 03/15/2015 6:04:47 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: NYer

Cables are one thing.... satellites are another, and this does not show the proprietary satellites (owned by companies for example, and separately by countries) that communicate even faster.


15 posted on 03/15/2015 6:07:30 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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Wonder what the cost/foot is? Must be ginourmous........


16 posted on 03/15/2015 6:08:02 AM PDT by Arlis
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Does this show Global Crossings—— LOL! The pump and dump hustle of fiber optic cable... that Terry McAulliffe helped defraud to investors.
The company that went belly up, and whose CEO lives in a huge mansion in CA and back at it with other “startups”.

Cable is past tense. Ask Hitlery— she would know.


17 posted on 03/15/2015 6:09:46 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: shalom aleichem

Yep. Mentioned it in my later post. McAulliffe is a scam grifter lying bastard on the Clintoon payroll. A fraud.

Global Crossing went belly up.


18 posted on 03/15/2015 6:11:50 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Arlis

So where is this “cloud” I’ve been reading about?


19 posted on 03/15/2015 6:12:25 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: JoeProBono

I think you have the same one I have...except mine runs through North Dakota, since every time it thunders there, I lose signal in Alabama.


20 posted on 03/15/2015 7:05:24 AM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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