About those cut cables and tinfoil...

[TreasonousBastard]

back in my insurance days we had several submarine cable accounts, so I have a some idea of what's going on there, if not a vast amount of expertise. It did seem a bit odd that so many would go out in such a small area, but I do remember cables regularly being repaired and replaced, and a few of them even went out almost immediately after being laid.

So, what this guy said in this interview makes perfect sense to me:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18784739

Of course, this "expert" must be a plant because he couldn't possibly know as much about it as the wizards here on DU and hundreds of blogs out there who are postive it's the first salvo in the war on Iran.

(Or something worse.)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I myself am no expert on submarine cables.

But it's not clear to me if the cables are literally being physically severed, or just failing. And without that information, and without any evidence of vandalism, Occam's Razor suggests that the failing of one cable is triggering failures in others.

[aquart]

2. Which means they are insufficiently redundant.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Obviously.

They're not Y2K8 compliant.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. You didn't listen either, or you would have known...

that the internet access is overly redundant while the phone service is less so.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. You didn't listen, or you would have had the answer to that.

[elehhhhna]

6. Fools! The tubes are full of water!

Just blow 'em out & it'll all be fine.