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Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue Jan 16 12:14:15 2007
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:08:37 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Jim Segrave <jes@nl.demon.net>, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>,
nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070116124703.GB11552@nl.demon.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Jim Segrave wrote:
> On Sun 14 Jan 2007 (01:51 -0800), Bill Woodcock wrote:
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070112/tc_afp/asiaquakeinternet_070112170621
>>
>> 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?
you're lucky they also didn't use nautical miles and fathoms (1.829
meters in si units)...
> 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...
>
