Leon Thevenin departs for Abidjan from Cape Town to fix broken submarine cables

and since @wizardofid and @Aghori love discussing Doomsday scenarios and their likeliness/unlikeliness.
Solar storm, or carrington type event fries everything with a microchip in it, Power, Fibre, Wifi, Cars food everything and ANYTHING takes us back to the wild west days, or Mad max instantly.

lets see people argue about EV's then!
Well we have been mostly lucky, with mass coronal ejections not being directed at us, but we should reach solar max this year and it is massive, so might still be something to be concerned about, and a chance we might be in the line of fire.

Lol EMP sets you back a few decades, a solar flare large enough sends you back to the stone age.

Solar flares are the least of my concern we are with in several potential super nova's, and a gamma ray burst directed at us it has the neat ability to wipe life off a planet to the point it is sterile, not even bacteria can survive a gamma ray burst from a super nova, it will essentially make earth sterile.

And yes earth has been hit in the past with gamma ray burst, it leaves a specific radioactive signature and there might have been several instances of this happening......

You are thinking on far too small scale concerning doomsday scenarios.....lol on a cosmological scale a gamma ray burst while destructive, there is significantly far worse things that can happen a rogue planet. Imagine if you would a rogue planet large enough to impact orbits enters our solar system it will either collide with planets or push them into new orbits or get ejected from the solar system, imagine earth getting flung out of the solar system or impacting the moons orbit, and it colliding with earth.

You would think earth is "good" for life, but contrary to popular believe it isn't really, just stable enough for life, there is always some threat over the horizon, earth and the solar system and cosmos is actually pretty hostile to life in general, it just so happens that we have had reasonable stability at the moment, millions of years from now not so much, in 4.5 billion years the sun will be become a white dwarf, but not before it expands in size and starts "eating" inner planets earth included.

Then there is the andromeda galaxy on a collision course with the milky way, in a few billion years....

EMP, solar flare....beatch please, gamma ray burst, hold my beer.......

Rogue planets is one possible scenario, pretty unlikely to encounter one not impossible thought, the scariest things might be things like gas giants and blackholes getting ejected from their galaxies heading our way, pretty unlikely, you have a better chance getting struck by lighting and winning the lotto twice on the same day. The scary thing about rogue planets , rogue black holes are near damn impossible to spot, by the time you spot them it would be too late, and the only way you are more likely to spot them is when they impact gravity and other objects around them......otherwise you wouldn't even know.
 
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I'm pretty curious at the cost of undersea cable vs having a cable run on-land instead :unsure: repairs would be much cheaper I'd assume

The problem with on-land cables are the big dumb hairless apes who keep breaking it in the hopes that its made of copper.
 
I'm pretty curious at the cost of undersea cable vs having a cable run on-land instead :unsure: repairs would be much cheaper I'd assume
I think also the problem with running it on land through all the different countries, is that all it takes is the "governments" to want cash back for using their land and once its laid demand more and more or they "switching it off.

However running it through international waters makes it easier as it is not passing dozens of "specific territories"

Just my opinion on it.
 
This map makes it look like Namibians (or perhaps those sneaky Angolans) may have fired upon the ship and sunk it a week ago already ...

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I'm pretty curious at the cost of undersea cable vs having a cable run on-land instead :unsure: repairs would be much cheaper I'd assume
Remember, on land you need a wayleave across many properties, you need to trench (expensive) and protect the cable from damage and vandalism.

In the sea you just dump it overboard. Very simple.
 
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