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Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Segrave)
Tue Jan 16 07:48:05 2007
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:47:03 +0100
From: Jim Segrave <jes@nl.demon.net>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
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On Sun 14 Jan 2007 (01:51 -0800), Bill Woodcock wrote:
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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070112/tc_afp/asiaquakeinternet_070112170621
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> A few numbers to help understand the scale of the effort being applied.
Is it just me or is this article a migraine inducing mix of metric and
English measures?
down to about 4,000 metres (2.5 miles), ...
100 metres (yards) long ...
waiting for 30 to 40 mile-an-hour winds (48 to 64 kilometres- an-hour)
to die down...
The winds have stirred up 10 to 12 metre waves....
Today's fibre optic cables are just 21 millimetres in diameter....
The grapnel is a metal tool about 18 by 24 inches (46 by 61
centimetres) ...
Arrgh...
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Jim Segrave jes@nl.demon.net
