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Was reading the wikipedia page on undersea cables and ran across this gem -- some pirates tried to sell 100 tons of fiber cable they nabbed off the bottom of th

• dweekly 7y ago
  Salvaged copper is worth a lot and has a lot of uses for which it can be repurposed. Salvaged fiber...less so.
  • analog31 7y ago
    Are undersea fiber cables bundled with copper conductors to power the repeaters?
    • jdblair 7y ago
      Yes, there is copper or aluminum for power. Most of the metal in a submarine fiber cable is steel. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable
  • sbr464 7y ago
    Reminds me of the opening of Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese), — Come on, hurry up with that shit, huh? What's this, more shit? No, that ain't shit. That's a German lens. I've got two shipments of those. That's good stuff. Can't use it. What do ya mean ya can't use it? That's a telescopic one. That's the best one they make. It's not German, it's Jap. This is an adaptor, it's not a lens. You bought two shipments of Jap adaptors, not lenses. Jap adaptors.