Wilshire@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoA data cable across Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany has broken and the cause is unknownapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1256arrow-down12
arrow-up1254arrow-down1external-linkA data cable across Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany has broken and the cause is unknownapnews.comWilshire@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squareshoulderoforion@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·4 days agoCost of doing business, get moving on laying another cable, simple as
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIn the ocean? Where all the salt water is? I’m sure that’ll be fine and there’s no possible way serious corrosion will be a problem ever.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoGlass corrodes? Also the US literally built a submarine so they could splice undersea cables (for surveillance) like decades ago. iirc the USS Jimmy Carter
Cost of doing business, get moving on laying another cable, simple as
They can’t splice it?
In the ocean? Where all the salt water is? I’m sure that’ll be fine and there’s no possible way serious corrosion will be a problem ever.
Glass corrodes?
Also the US literally built a submarine so they could splice undersea cables (for surveillance) like decades ago. iirc the USS Jimmy Carter