On Feb 1, 2008 2:35 PM, Rod Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Give yourself 170 years of undersea cables and calculate the odds. > > :)
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 :)) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],darkuncle.net} || 0x5537F527 http://darkuncle.net/pubkey.asc for public key
