Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

Tue Feb 5 19:25:40 UTC 2008

Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> Dorn Hetzel wrote:
>> perhaps my favorite magazine article of all time.
>>> <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html>.
> 
> the original came with pictures <sigh>.  i tried the wayback machine, 
> but could not find a version with them. :(
> 
> i guess i should wget the great ones with pics before they fade.  but i 
> just can't archive everything.  and there are copyright issues anyway.
> 
> randy
> 

An interesting line from page 10 of the article:

"Diversity is not needed in the deep ocean, but land crossings are 
viewed as considerably more risky."

This philosophy should probably be rethought somewhat, as we may have 
discovered this past week.

-- 
Jeff Shultz