The summary "existing optical fibers -- the tiny, hollow glass strands that carry data through beams of light" is wrong. As per this link, hollow fibers are something special: Hollow-core fiber (HCF) uses air as the transmission medium, replacing the traditional optical fiber that uses "glass core" as the transmission medium. The motivation is to get lower latency, as light is faster in air than in a glass core. Almost all the world's installed optical fibers have a glass core.

That's correct for terrestrial fibers. The GP was talking about transoceanic, where there tend to be a lot fewer fibers. For example, Hibernia from 2015 had six fiber pairs. The number of pairs for new transoceanic systems has crept up since then, but it's still a dozen or fewer.

From the history:

[ The generator is at 37 degrees 25' 42.1" N 122 degrees 04' 59.0" W if you want to find it on a map ]

But also the less obvious: leaded gasoline has bad effects on kids, and smoking cigarettes leads to cancer and heart disease.

Remember that the "ethyl" (really Pb) industry and the tobacco industry spent decades trying to discredit the scientific research that was threatening them. Follow the money!

Not helped by astroturfing industry groups, who are delighted when people put scare quotes around the word "scientists".

As well as the upload and download speeds, they should display something like "Plan to be on the phone with us for up to six hours if you move from one state to another. Our back office systems can't cope."

Comcast is great if you never, ever, ever want anything changed or moved.

This post by roman_mir kicked things off. It is probably hidden from you because it is at Score:-1.

I'd like to pay tribute to the immense flexibility of the word "leftist", having seen roman_mir's posts on socialism destroying economies, monopolies, plastic bags, and just about everything else.

It's not unknown: Germanwings Flight 9525.

Any option less than $64k is silly, given the question, as it's already been there. Unless you somehow change the meaning of "highest" or "2024".

Agreed. But nice to see the occasional poll.

Do you have anything to back up using "notorious" here? You can look at Cluebot_NG's reverts and see this kind of thing. AI doesn't have to be great when humans are this dumb.

You wrote an article and it was deleted? The first rule of "Complain about Wikipedia Club" is never to give any specifics!

Wouldn't a thermonuclear warhead crater be much like all the other craters? There are 6,972 craters bigger than 20km (~12 miles).

We're unwilling to spend a tiny fraction of GDP on discovering more about particle physics. The aliens are probably unwilling to spend 25% of GDP on a 50-year unmanned (unaliened?) mission to fly by their nearest star at high speed, let alone a thousand year mission to distant Sol.

If you look at a submarine cable map you will find the Oman Australia Cable is the only cable in that general area. However, it was laid in 2021, seven years after MH370.

Is this correct? The French started building a sea level canal in 1881 and went bankrupt in 1889. Then the Comité Technique of the successor Compagnie Nouvelle came up with a plan with eight sets of locks and two high level lakes in 1898. However, in 1906 a US engineering panel recommended a sea level canal. To quote wikipedia:

The factors at play appear to be excavation costs and the seasonal flooding of the Chagres river, which the lake plan works around.

That is a bit rich, coming from the person who wrote "lazy brain", "blow smoke", "IPv6 cultists", "Bunch of wankers telling each other what geniuses they are", "arrogant asses", and more. How high or low is the bar for being an ass? I've been unfailingly polite to you and you have just come back with abuse.

Beyond your 30,000ft generalizations the only suggestion connecting these "USBs" together without upgrading everything is a horrible kludge that I re-invented.