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Please don't give the HFT's ideas, they'll probably do it and cause a half dozen tsunamis in the process.

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potiuper 6y ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-frequency-traders-push-closer-to-light-speed-with-cutting-edge-cables-11608028200 https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-frequency-traders-push-clo...
hinkley 6y ago
...and create a supervolcano.
- ethbr0 6y ago
  We already have one of those on land in the US.
  - Talanes 6y ago
    We have two. I suspect that you are thinking of Yellowstone, but there is also the Long Valley Caldera in Eastern California. The Mammoth Mountain area.
ISL 6y ago
If you don't like HFTs, this is an idea you'd probably like to give them. Nobody has ever drilled through the Mohorovicic. It is unclear whether or not it is possible to do so. The most-likely outcome is a few happy geologists/geophysicists and a number of very-sad HFT underwriters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_discontinuity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_disconti...
- oAlbe 6y ago
  It says it's 10 to 20 km below the ocean floor. Are we as humans been digging in the ocean floor that deep, or even at all? That sounds like sci-fi to me, I'd love to learn more if that's actually feasible.
  - krallja 6y ago
    USSR, land, 12,262 metres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole US, sea, 183 m below the sea floor in 3,600 m of water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mohole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mohole
  - baud147258 6y ago
    Apparently the deepest oil well at sea was 10km deep, in the Mexico Gulf, drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig
TuringNYC 6y ago
Anyone interested in the topic, this is a great movie — fiction but very close to reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hummingbird_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hummingbird_Project
pm90 6y ago
You know, if HFT's will be the agents of future MegaInfrastructure spend, so be it. I long for the days when the US loved building infrastructure.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-frequency-traders-push-closer-to-light-speed-with-cutting-edge-cables-11608028200 https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-frequency-traders-push-clo...

hinkley 6y ago

...and create a supervolcano.

ethbr0 6y ago
We already have one of those on land in the US.
- Talanes 6y ago
  We have two. I suspect that you are thinking of Yellowstone, but there is also the Long Valley Caldera in Eastern California. The Mammoth Mountain area.

ISL 6y ago

If you don't like HFTs, this is an idea you'd probably like to give them. Nobody has ever drilled through the Mohorovicic. It is unclear whether or not it is possible to do so. The most-likely outcome is a few happy geologists/geophysicists and a number of very-sad HFT underwriters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_discontinuity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_disconti...

oAlbe 6y ago
It says it's 10 to 20 km below the ocean floor. Are we as humans been digging in the ocean floor that deep, or even at all? That sounds like sci-fi to me, I'd love to learn more if that's actually feasible.
- krallja 6y ago
  USSR, land, 12,262 metres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole US, sea, 183 m below the sea floor in 3,600 m of water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mohole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mohole
- baud147258 6y ago
  Apparently the deepest oil well at sea was 10km deep, in the Mexico Gulf, drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig

TuringNYC 6y ago

Anyone interested in the topic, this is a great movie — fiction but very close to reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hummingbird_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hummingbird_Project

pm90 6y ago

You know, if HFT's will be the agents of future MegaInfrastructure spend, so be it. I long for the days when the US loved building infrastructure.