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BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMED

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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 364794
2/6/2008 12:12 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

First Scene of an Act of War.
Cut and destabilize the enemy´s communication.
Google the lines locations specifically and who´s effected the most.
Britain's Cable Steamer Telconia cut major lines connecting Germany when WW1 started
 Quoting: GET READY 368947

Very Smart!!!! hiding
TruthSeeker7
User ID: 369016
2/6/2008 12:23 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Connecting The Many Undersea Cut Cable Dots - 9 Or More?


I took a map and connected the dots.
The line seems to divide africa from europe/asia.

Some more dots:
Why is this not main news?
I looked at the zeta thread and did not see any debunking on this.
I do not know about plates, but it does seem logical.
They must have checked for manmade cutting within hours, national security etc.
If, like Iran, found it was manmade, they would tell the world immediately, out of self-defense.
If caused by earth expanding, looks like a birth then, so much in so little time.

We live in exciting times.

Peace - Darza
 Quoting: Darza


Can you post your map with the dots connected please?

Or maybe create an interactive Google Map with "push pins" added?
dinosaurex
User ID: 364875
2/6/2008 12:24 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

For once I blame the Newfies.
They've had to go further afield in search of cod to jig and baby seals to club.
 Quoting: Isaac Brock died for us


Nobody would suspect rogue baby seals...
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 368974
2/6/2008 12:31 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

TruthSeeker7
User ID: 369016
2/6/2008 12:35 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Does anyone know if this one is on the list?


[link to www.khaleejtimes.com]
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 368435


Yes, this was included on the list.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 317323
2/6/2008 12:37 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

THEORY: The wires are still intact, but have been pierced and someone is monitoring all the net traffic...logging IPs, information, etc., while cutting-off access to the Net to anyone they choose.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 260371
2/6/2008 12:39 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

THEORY: The wires are still intact, but have been pierced and someone is monitoring all the net traffic...logging IPs, information, etc., while cutting-off access to the Net to anyone they choose.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 317323

a very good theory, and probably not a theory at all.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 364615
2/6/2008 12:39 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

So the internet is the largest surveillance system in the world. Cutting the cables does the ME a favor.


:hide:
TruthSeeker7
User ID: 369016
2/6/2008 12:41 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Another map:

SEA-ME-WE-3-Route

[link to en.wikipedia.org]


Another map here in pdf

[link to www1.alcatel-lucent.com]
 Quoting: Prof-Rabbit 148352


That is the best map yet. Can really zoom in on it.

Thanks for posting.
TruthSeeker7
User ID: 369016
2/6/2008 12:45 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 368974


Wow, that's cool. Thanks.
TruthSeeker7
User ID: 369016
2/6/2008 1:00 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Add this to the "DOOM DOT" list:

Doom Dot #3,948: [link to www.godlikeproductions.com]

Also, a good explanation for the cutting of the cables.
zangtang.
User ID: 368910
2/6/2008 1:07 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

i'm suprised that anyone who could take the expanding earth theory(!) seriously - as an explanation for the cables shenannigans - can operate a keyboard
jas1977
User ID: 369066
2/6/2008 1:13 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

The continents are shifting,being stretched and the cables that are supposed to be buried in the ground are exposed and stretched. Earthqaukes in that region are getting stronger. Planet X is the cause of everything with bad weather and causing the earth wobble. The moon the sun or off due to the wobble!
We know by the method of looking at something and recognizing its correctness. It is a spiritual ablility. I believe we all have it.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 355306
2/6/2008 1:16 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

The Earth has a bun in the oven as the moon is lonely and in need of a brother or sister. There, the expansion causing the cable breaks has been scientifically explained.
Darza
User ID: 341805
2/6/2008 1:39 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Connecting The Many Undersea Cut Cable Dots - 9 Or More?


I took a map and connected the dots.
The line seems to divide africa from europe/asia.

Some more dots:
Why is this not main news?
I looked at the zeta thread and did not see any debunking on this.
I do not know about plates, but it does seem logical.
They must have checked for manmade cutting within hours, national security etc.
If, like Iran, found it was manmade, they would tell the world immediately, out of self-defense.
If caused by earth expanding, looks like a birth then, so much in so little time.

We live in exciting times.

Peace - Darza


Can you post your map with the dots connected please?

Or maybe create an interactive Google Map with "push pins" added?
 Quoting: TruthSeeker7


Truthseeker,

I just took an atlas and compared it to your list.
A line from Malasya to France appeared in my mind only.

I also thought of the interactive map, would not know how.
We could update the map and upload to the glp pics file.
More events will follow i am sure.

You asked for positive dots, here are some of mine:
More and more people are taking their freedom back, discovering there true power/nature, becoming independent.
Churches are crumbling as do other hierarchical systems
The people of the world are demanding peace
New science is emerging, disproving old dogma's/taboo's
Science and spirituality are merging. Both trying to understand reality.
Glp is awesom

Peace - Darza
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 224132
2/6/2008 1:47 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Expanding Earth

your joking....right?

Expanding Earth = joke.
The JOOZ did it = serious geo-political analysis.
 Quoting: Isaac Brock died for us

Yes,let us all cry boo hoo hoo, the Jews have made monkeys of us again.
Knock it off with the faux pal nonsense, and you won't have that problem.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 305708
2/6/2008 2:45 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Extra news and links

The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.

[link to www.internettrafficreport.com]

[link to www.unknowncountry.com]

[link to www.unknowncountry.com]
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 207913
2/6/2008 2:48 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

'Iran Oil Bourse', US Dollar and Internet Cables

[link to mathaba.net]
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 360104
2/6/2008 3:17 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

one must consider these ocean cables are in the main part steal tows, like those that hold bridges, or those that hold anchors. The optical wire is only a centimeter or two.

To make them snap the force must be enormous, even to cut them you need strongly attached explosives or high tech machines.

Then I wonder how you fix optical wires. Probably you could only include a transformer in between and that would be some serious bottleneck. But I am just guessing here.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 366141

"To make them snap the force must be enormous"..

Earth quake
underwater avalanche









Expanding Earth
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 369129
2/6/2008 3:27 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

For once I blame the Newfies.
They've had to go further afield in search of cod to jig and baby seals to club.


Nobody would suspect rogue baby seals...
 Quoting: dinosaurex


nobody ever suspects rogue baby seals!
NightWisp Subscriber
User ID: 369136
2/6/2008 3:53 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Expanding Earth

your joking....right?

Expanding Earth = joke.
The JOOZ did it = serious geo-political analysis.
 Quoting: Isaac Brock died for us


*************
The Mid Atlantic Rift a place where lava comes to the surface to the floor of the ocean. increasing the width of the Atlantic Ocean. The Continents will move apart.. putting presure of the Ring of Fire. Notice any earthquakes or Volcanes erupting on the ring of fire lately?

So Expanding Atlantic would probably be more proper. However.. I doubt that would cut cables at once. But.. who knows.
Blimped
User ID: 360104
2/6/2008 4:02 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Expanding Earth

your joking....right?

Expanding Earth = joke.
The JOOZ did it = serious geo-political analysis.


*************
The Mid Atlantic Rift a place where lava comes to the surface to the floor of the ocean. increasing the width of the Atlantic Ocean. The Continents will move apart.. putting presure of the Ring of Fire. Notice any earthquakes or Volcanes erupting on the ring of fire lately?

So Expanding Atlantic would probably be more proper. However.. I doubt that would cut cables at once. But.. who knows.
 Quoting: NightWisp

True, all part of the same process, IMHO..

..I guess we will see what the different sides say.
TruthSeeker7
User ID: 369016
2/6/2008 4:10 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

For once I blame the Newfies.
They've had to go further afield in search of cod to jig and baby seals to club.


Nobody would suspect rogue baby seals...


nobody ever suspects rogue baby seals!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 369129


Oh, I did.

Especially this one:

[link to www.hickerphoto.com]

Look at the vicious face and tell me you're not afraid.
F.B.Nyte
User ID: 367872
2/6/2008 4:11 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Connecting The Many Undersea Cut Cable Dots - 9 Or More?


I took a map and connected the dots.
The line seems to divide africa from europe/asia.

Some more dots:
Why is this not main news?
I looked at the zeta thread and did not see any debunking on this.
I do not know about plates, but it does seem logical.
They must have checked for manmade cutting within hours, national security etc.
If, like Iran, found it was manmade, they would tell the world immediately, out of self-defense.
If caused by earth expanding, looks like a birth then, so much in so little time.

We live in exciting times.

Peace - Darza


Can you post your map with the dots connected please?

Or maybe create an interactive Google Map with "push pins" added?
 Quoting: TruthSeeker7


TS7
It's not interactive, but It's the best I've seen to date:

[link to www.ilovebonnie.net]

From link with discussion here:

[link to www.ilovebonnie.net]
wing-ed
User ID: 281371
2/6/2008 4:17 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

PHONE COMPANY FINDS SHARKS CUTTING IN

New York Times
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

LEAD: Sharks have shown an inexplicable taste for the new fiber-optic cables that are being strung along the ocean floor linking the United States, Europe and Japan, telephone company officials say.

Sharks have shown an inexplicable taste for the new fiber-optic cables that are being strung along the ocean floor linking the United States, Europe and Japan, telephone company officials say.

In the Atlantic alone, shark bites have caused the failure of four segments of cable, which is the main artery for global voice and computer communications. And British telephone officials monitoring the installation of the fiber-optic network that will link the United States to Japan and Guam are also reporting troubles with gnawing sharks.

The attacks have caused some delays in laying cable, and a single bite on a deep-sea line, which is about the size of a garden hose, can cost $250,000 or more to fix. There is a benefit, however. In studying ways to limit damage from the attacks, the telephone companies are providing marine scientists with valuable new data on sharks and specimens of previously unknown species.

The first evidence of sharks' attraction to the cables was the discovery of shark teeth embedded in an experimental line off the Canary Islands in 1985. A shark usually loses teeth when it bites something, and it later grows new ones.

''We were surprised,'' said James M. Barrett, deputy director of international engineering for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ''We had laid 55,000 or 60,000 miles of undersea cable all over the world with no problem. There had not been a single case of a shark biting one of the old cables,'' which were made of copper.

He added, ''We took the teeth to a shark dentist and asked him to identify them.'' Even now, he said, experts disagree on which type of shark was responsible for the attack.

After further instances of having cables damaged by shark bites, A.T.&T. officials now say they are confident that by wrapping the cable in double layers of steel tape they can prevent future damage. But the cause of the ''Jaws syndrome,'' as one telephone company spokesman called it, remains a mystery.

The fiber-optic cables look essentially the same as copper cables, except that the newer cables are less than an inch in diameter - mere dental floss to a big shark - while the older ones are as thick as an arm. Both also have armored jackets and contain copper wires that carry electrical power to amplifying stations along the way.

Inside each of the new cables, however, are six hairlike strands of glass that can carry as many as 40,000 separate conversations traveling as staccato pulses of laser light. In contrast, the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable, a fat copper line laid between Newfoundland and Scotland in 1956, could carry only 36 conversations. Even the newest copper cable, laid in 1983, has a maximum capacity of only 9,000 calls.

Construction of the trans-Atlantic fiber-optic network is scheduled to be completed in 1988. But the attacks on functioning segments of test lines in the Canary Islands are worrisome to A.T.&T. and its several dozen foreign partners in the $1 billion projects.

Besides the potential to disrupt communications, the bites require repairs that often take a week or more, depending on depth and the weather, and cost $250,000 and up. The repairs are also technologically complex and inherently risky. Intensive Marine Research

Compared with the other hazards of the deep -fishing lines, anchors and propellers, volcanoes, earthquakes and jagged ridges - sharks would seem to be a minor threat to the cables. But the sharks' unpredictability and their sudden, unexplained interest in the fiber-optic lines prompted A.T.&T. to support an intensive study program involving dozens of people at several leading marine research centers.

In addition to tests at sea, experiments were performed by scientists at the Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and at marine labs in Connecticut, Florida and the Bahamas, Mr. Barrett said.

Testing a theory that sharks feed at depths as great as 3,000 meters (nearly two miles), the researchers fished for them using long lines, rather than nets, which are easily avoided by big fish. They discovered, Mr. Barrett said, that sharks rarely feed below 1,500 meters.

''Hundreds of sharks have been caught,'' said Mr. Barrett of A.T.&T. On one expedition, he said, ''about a dozen shark experts were out on the boat.'' He went on, ''They got this one big shark on deck and tried to force-feed him samples of cable to see how he'd react. He was not happy about having someone try to shove it down his mouth.'' A Donation of 350 Sharks

A.T.&T. recently donated more than 350 specimens of shark, preserved, to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The gift ''was certainly one of the largest collections of large fish ever received here,'' said Dr. Gary Nelson, chairman of the museum's department of ichthyology.

Besides sharks, he said, there are skates, rays and fish that were previously unknown. ''There are some species that are new to science, that have not been seen before,'' Dr. Nelson said, adding that many of the specimens have not yet been unpacked.

''These are treasurable things,'' he said. ''A.T.&T. delivered all this to our door. They did it in the interest of science, and it was very helpful and responsible. They could have just thrown them back overboard.'' Mr. Barrett said he believes a combination of factors may be responsible for the attacks, all of which have occurred about a mile deep on cable that was laid ''bar tight,'' suspended without slack. It is possible, he said, that vibrations of the taut cable occur at a frequency that sharks identify with food. Electrical Current Suspected

Also, some researchers believe there may be something unusual about the electrical current in the fiber-optic lines that attracts sharks and that may trigger an automatic feeding reflex.

The finding that sharks are supersensitive to electrical signals, able to detect electric fields as faint as a few millionths of a volt per centimeter in water, is a recent significant discovery in marine science, Dr. Nelson said.

The sharks may detect a faint field near the cable and attack. ''Not knowing any better, they try to eat it,'' Dr. Nelson said. ''It's programmed in their genes. Whether the field comes from a cable or from a tin can, sharks are prone to behave as if they were encountering a food item, and try to eat it up.''

Mr. Barrett said the fiber-optic cables would be armored to depths of 2,500 meters to protect against shark bites, and buried in trenches closer to shore to guard against fishing boat anchors.

''We learn something new on every cable system we lay on the ocean floor,'' Mr. Barrett said. ''This time it happens to be sharks. It's a very challenging environment.''
Holy, holy,holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Praise the one who gives you peace beyond all understanding
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 291612
2/6/2008 4:24 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

Your local phone company can ping your landline and pinpoint exactly where an interruption is occurring, including in your home. Trust me, they know it's cut and where. The only questions are how and why?

stfu
Your local phone company can ping your landline and pinpoint exactly where an interruption is occurring, including in your home. Trust me, they know it's cut and where. The only questions are how and why?
How very simple submarine robots the type used for costructing them in the first place why because of the iranian oil bourse mr ahmadjinedad should have used a wifi system i mean even i have one of those wi fi internet devices and gues what they dont need cable tata
bsmeter2
 Quoting: ninja 368937

I worked in communications (Black Box Network Services)and I can tell you that the first claim is completely accurate. In fact, when we pull new cat 5 cables for networks and punch them down in the patch panels, the first thing we do is ping the lines to ensure that we have not stretched or broken any copper in the lines (which is a real pain in the ass if you did as you are often crawling up into the hard lid to locate the break. Never happens in an easy place) We have a special hand held computer that performs this test, tells us how long the cables are from point to point and if there is a break, it will tell us how many feet down the line it is...

One of the breaks in the ME was stated to be 56 miles out. 5+6=11 again...

For those who think we can just use satellites, you are wrong, but not completely. Your computers, unless specially designed for this purpose and you happen to have a truckload of money to spend, do not have the hardware to send the signal to the sat. They have to bounce off a station to do it. It is a network that they are building via cellular towers, and our military does have access, but it is only given to those who need it with emergency reserves on the side. It is not standardized by any means in the .mil area. The Military has access, but the general populace and >80% of the Mil personnel do not. That will change but it is a production issue and bottom line, the tech is newer and very costly. They just haven't produced enough of these units yet
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 360104
2/6/2008 4:29 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

PHONE COMPANY FINDS SHARKS CUTTING IN

New York Times
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

LEAD: Sharks have shown an inexplicable taste for the new fiber-optic cables that are being strung along the ocean floor linking the United States, Europe and Japan, telephone company officials say.

Sharks have shown an inexplicable taste for the new fiber-optic cables that are being strung along the ocean floor linking the United States, Europe and Japan, telephone company officials say.

In the Atlantic alone, shark bites have caused the failure of four segments of cable, which is the main artery for global voice and computer communications. And British telephone officials monitoring the installation of the fiber-optic network that will link the United States to Japan and Guam are also reporting troubles with gnawing sharks.

The attacks have caused some delays in laying cable, and a single bite on a deep-sea line, which is about the size of a garden hose, can cost $250,000 or more to fix. There is a benefit, however. In studying ways to limit damage from the attacks, the telephone companies are providing marine scientists with valuable new data on sharks and specimens of previously unknown species.

The first evidence of sharks' attraction to the cables was the discovery of shark teeth embedded in an experimental line off the Canary Islands in 1985. A shark usually loses teeth when it bites something, and it later grows new ones.

''We were surprised,'' said James M. Barrett, deputy director of international engineering for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ''We had laid 55,000 or 60,000 miles of undersea cable all over the world with no problem. There had not been a single case of a shark biting one of the old cables,'' which were made of copper.

He added, ''We took the teeth to a shark dentist and asked him to identify them.'' Even now, he said, experts disagree on which type of shark was responsible for the attack.

After further instances of having cables damaged by shark bites, A.T.&T. officials now say they are confident that by wrapping the cable in double layers of steel tape they can prevent future damage. But the cause of the ''Jaws syndrome,'' as one telephone company spokesman called it, remains a mystery.

The fiber-optic cables look essentially the same as copper cables, except that the newer cables are less than an inch in diameter - mere dental floss to a big shark - while the older ones are as thick as an arm. Both also have armored jackets and contain copper wires that carry electrical power to amplifying stations along the way.

Inside each of the new cables, however, are six hairlike strands of glass that can carry as many as 40,000 separate conversations traveling as staccato pulses of laser light. In contrast, the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable, a fat copper line laid between Newfoundland and Scotland in 1956, could carry only 36 conversations. Even the newest copper cable, laid in 1983, has a maximum capacity of only 9,000 calls.

Construction of the trans-Atlantic fiber-optic network is scheduled to be completed in 1988. But the attacks on functioning segments of test lines in the Canary Islands are worrisome to A.T.&T. and its several dozen foreign partners in the $1 billion projects.

Besides the potential to disrupt communications, the bites require repairs that often take a week or more, depending on depth and the weather, and cost $250,000 and up. The repairs are also technologically complex and inherently risky. Intensive Marine Research

Compared with the other hazards of the deep -fishing lines, anchors and propellers, volcanoes, earthquakes and jagged ridges - sharks would seem to be a minor threat to the cables. But the sharks' unpredictability and their sudden, unexplained interest in the fiber-optic lines prompted A.T.&T. to support an intensive study program involving dozens of people at several leading marine research centers.

In addition to tests at sea, experiments were performed by scientists at the Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and at marine labs in Connecticut, Florida and the Bahamas, Mr. Barrett said.

Testing a theory that sharks feed at depths as great as 3,000 meters (nearly two miles), the researchers fished for them using long lines, rather than nets, which are easily avoided by big fish. They discovered, Mr. Barrett said, that sharks rarely feed below 1,500 meters.

''Hundreds of sharks have been caught,'' said Mr. Barrett of A.T.&T. On one expedition, he said, ''about a dozen shark experts were out on the boat.'' He went on, ''They got this one big shark on deck and tried to force-feed him samples of cable to see how he'd react. He was not happy about having someone try to shove it down his mouth.'' A Donation of 350 Sharks

A.T.&T. recently donated more than 350 specimens of shark, preserved, to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The gift ''was certainly one of the largest collections of large fish ever received here,'' said Dr. Gary Nelson, chairman of the museum's department of ichthyology.

Besides sharks, he said, there are skates, rays and fish that were previously unknown. ''There are some species that are new to science, that have not been seen before,'' Dr. Nelson said, adding that many of the specimens have not yet been unpacked.

''These are treasurable things,'' he said. ''A.T.&T. delivered all this to our door. They did it in the interest of science, and it was very helpful and responsible. They could have just thrown them back overboard.'' Mr. Barrett said he believes a combination of factors may be responsible for the attacks, all of which have occurred about a mile deep on cable that was laid ''bar tight,'' suspended without slack. It is possible, he said, that vibrations of the taut cable occur at a frequency that sharks identify with food. Electrical Current Suspected

Also, some researchers believe there may be something unusual about the electrical current in the fiber-optic lines that attracts sharks and that may trigger an automatic feeding reflex.

The finding that sharks are supersensitive to electrical signals, able to detect electric fields as faint as a few millionths of a volt per centimeter in water, is a recent significant discovery in marine science, Dr. Nelson said.

The sharks may detect a faint field near the cable and attack. ''Not knowing any better, they try to eat it,'' Dr. Nelson said. ''It's programmed in their genes. Whether the field comes from a cable or from a tin can, sharks are prone to behave as if they were encountering a food item, and try to eat it up.''

Mr. Barrett said the fiber-optic cables would be armored to depths of 2,500 meters to protect against shark bites, and buried in trenches closer to shore to guard against fishing boat anchors.

''We learn something new on every cable system we lay on the ocean floor,'' Mr. Barrett said. ''This time it happens to be sharks. It's a very challenging environment.''
 Quoting: wing-ed

shark

lmao

NY Times...Now THAT is funny!
wing-ed
User ID: 281371
2/6/2008 4:33 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

shark

lmao

NY Times...Now THAT is funny!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 360104

wtf could happen, NOT
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Devil's advocate
User ID: 360501
2/6/2008 4:39 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

1...2...3... ok... 4 ... maybe... but NINE?!

WTF is happening and who the hell is doing that?!
The world woud be a thousand times better place if your silly cults didnt exist.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 673558

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There can be only one of them that is true. Why should yours be the one? If there was one of them that had the complete, undeniable, verifiable truth, the others wouldn't exist anymore.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 368995
2/6/2008 4:43 PM
Re: BREAKING!! ***NINE*** or more cables cut?!!! ***EIGHT*** CONFIRMEDQuote

1...2...3... ok... 4 ... maybe... but NINE?!

WTF is happening and who the hell is doing that?!
 Quoting: Whee! 8D

lol
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