All of the world’s internet runs in cables on the ocean floor. How is that possible when we know so little about the oceans and when some parts of the ocean are too deep?
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It’s all relative.
The number one threat to Internet in your area = a construction worker with a backhoe. Cables buried underground in a city are much more likely to be damaged than undersea cables. There is much more digging going on.
While the ocean is very deep in a few places, they don’t run cables there. The ocean, below a couple of km in depth, is amazingly free of backhoes, life, and digging in general. A cable can just lie there undisturbed, sending along Internet.
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