Animated map reveals the 550,000 miles of cable hidden under the ocean that power the internet
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Every time you visit a web page or send an email, data is being sent and received through an intricate cable system that stretches around the globe. Since the 1850s, we've been laying cables across oceans to become better connected. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optic cables constantly transmitting data between nations.
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I just discovered why they call it the world wide web.
@Rede Common why do you think the world wide web is something completely different? it is still relevant on a conceptual level, without these cables WWW is pretty much useless endeavor.
In future, they might call it the "World Space Web" :)
@@CrystalNova_HI ☝
@@CrystalNova_HII highly doubt it.
What I think is the most impressive: is that the cables only transmit series of 1s and 0s, simultaneously, in infrared, at light speeds.
Excuse me, but why in infrared? Isn't "light on" and "light off" (1 and 0) the same no matter what the light is? Or is infrared faster? Cheaper?
Maybe because of a longer wavelength?
@@elvenkind6072 infrared has a longer wavelength meaning it requires less energy compared to visible light. Im taking a guess here but they dont use radio waves because radio waves pass through a lot of things and they need the light to reflect off the plaxtic/glass in the fiber optics.
@@rickyfatty363 Interesting! Thank you so much for the thoughtful answer! 🙂
There's a saying where I live, that is my favorite one: One learn something new every day.
So thank you for making me think. I never regret asking simple questions, as the answers might become very complex, if answered by the right person. 🙂
@@rickyfatty363 simple answer - light travels farther and much faster.
Wow this is crazy!! Why am I just learning this?!
same I thought everyone is connected wirelessly, this is so impressive
Because they program us through ads ... they always show satellites and towers.. you weren't the only one who didn't know this.. they lie to us all the time.. make us think one thing when it's actually something else entirely.. earth is flat.. research level and the next level documentaries..
I never knew about this until today
I didn’t know these long undersea cables existed, impressive with how far we’ve come with technology.
That's because they always show satellites and towers in the depiction of any kind of connectivity... glitches the matrix when you start to notice.. further perpetuates the lie of what satellites are actually used for.. the less knowledgeable we are, the easier we are to control.. funny that we have all been thinking that's how we get connected... cause they told us that.. they lie to us.. all the time.... the earth is flat.
What's more impressive is dumb morons use it to spread nonsense about literally everything.
it's like the earths central nervous system
I see Australia got a solid 3 cables, very good
now ya'll aussies crying about your internet now makes sense
and in that police state now 3 cables do not do bleep.
Shet wifi
@@cobro2
lol, US is being administered by criminals and you joke about Australia being a police state.
The entire West is under attack by globalists.
Simply Amazing. Especially when it takes less than a second to connect to any where in the world.
I'd be surprised if the cables are that neatly arranged.
Do u have gridophobia?
Untidycordophobia😆
I want to know who the engineers were and how they accomplished this impressive feat. This is unbelievablely cool. We truly are connected in ways we don't think about.
Edit: I also want to know how they repair them when they get damaged.
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Cyrus West Field had a vision for the future, ran the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858 which only worked for 3 weeks though. This was an idea to build on after that.
What was then after 3 weeks
I studied in my Indian history lesson that a Telegraph cable connecting India and London was opened up in 1865 and it would take more than 5 minutes to convey a message from one end to another
Now this is pretty damn neat.
The Gulf of Mexico is oddly empty. You would think that there would be at least one cable from Houston or New Orleans to South America.
Am here i thought it was all wireless connection country to country. Deymn its amazing hard work and intense laying all those wire cables over the world.
what happens to cables if there's an earthquake? How do you locate damaged cables and repair?
Dump a new one
There's videos up at least now that kind of show how it's done. They have a special anchor of sorts to skim on the ocean floor and grab the cables. Basically they can cut and repair them.
When I was in Vietnam Last time, they had super slow internet and the excuse was sharks ate a cable...
@@CoolMan-ig1ol lol 😂
@@grayghost832humans can reach the floor of a sea?? i have heard we can't go to the bottom of ocean
Which is why Russian submarines love to make the US Defense Department nervous by hanging out close to the cables, a prime target of attack.
Used to wonder if this was possible at all to get done.Of course it's there.Obviously for connectivity.But still,absolutely amazing engineering achievements by these professional companies.
550000 is wrong 547822 is correct because earth circumference is 24901 miles
Look at the northern part of the Philippines! I haven’t seen so much cables! It is the choke point?
Never knew about this until today
It’s beautiful!
This gives Death Stranding a whole new meaning.
Finally my home country has fiber x)
amazing... we are probably the most smart specie at least in the Milky Galaxy
Aliens use telepathy. We're actually the dumbest.
telepathy is dumb. you cant hide anything like watching porn. no privacy.
+Dark Mice we aren't all dumb. I guess only SpiritWaker is
SpiritWaker
Yes, anyone could tell by your grammar and spelling
jk, english probably isnt ur first language
Perfectly exemplified that statement in the execution of your comment... 😅😅🙄😮💨
Hard to believe thickness is not more than 3 inch 1:14
Aye man 3 inches can do a lot more than you think
@@scubasteve7408 2 inch is enough😏
So landlocked countries don't have the internet?
Ayumi Acenas They connect to non-landlocked countries via land cables.
Yup.. not satellites...
@@HopefulHoneybee Sattelite internet is too slow and laggy, but it does exist
only 100s of miilions of dollars? thats cheap af. A billionaire can basically make his own internet if thats true.
Find it: Which is the last undersea cable landing point to be SHOWN in this video?
this is a re-upload from about a year ago
Who paid for it?who ordered it?who made it?
vanwanderer
Vladimir Putin, obviously
any company can anyone can its the ocean no one owns it
The greenland has no underwater internet cable
They look a little bit like constellations.
The importance of such network cannot be underestimated; as it has the power to create disruptive consequences to human kind
So who funds the laying of the cables? Government or private companies? Thank you
Big tech companies like Amazon, Facebook etc
For domestic cable, mostly government.
Yes
How is that remaining 1% of international data transmitted?
Messenger pigeons :D
satelite
my penis
north korea,cuba
Satellites or balloons
Sharks sometimes chew them up.
Smh Business Insider worded the title making it sound like they didn’t make the animation
Amazing
If there are supposed to be all those satellites and starlink why is upwards of 90% of all communications on earth going through underwater cables?
From your location to the satellite and back to the earth is farther and more unstable than a fiber optic cable.
So what's stopping people from cutting these ?
international law or some shit
It's very deep underwater normal people like you can't cut it
Your mom
How they supply internet in Himalayas and other mountain regions of world?
Now I know what cable to cut
Amazing, but yet so primitive. Don't get me wrong, it is an amazing feat, but I feel it should be something different, something newer. These cables could be a main source of attack, or could be subject to some type of natural catastrophe. At the level we're atright now, I feel there should be more to it.
How on earth is laying undersea cables "primitive " to you?
Are you university educated by any chance?
What a fine network of cables. In the early days used to connect people much faster. Today mostly used to stream porn videos offcourse and messages like "Hello dear sir, my name is Dr. Jabdadadaba and as requested by the dear late Mrs. hubabubabuba, whom meantioned you personally in her will, I am about to transfer 113 mill USD to your account, but in order to do that..."
So was the satellite thing we were told a lie
Of course. They advanced that to prove the fake globe earth and space theories
No, why?
Satellite carrys internet traffic too, as does these fibre optic cables.
It dows not matter how long your cable might be but how thick.
imagine we now watching youtube becuase of a 1000 mile cable all across the oceans
What if a ship sank on top the cables?
it wouldn't matter much since the ship is probably in tiny peices anyways and these cables already deal with high water pressure anyways too.
But our oceans havnt been explored ? RIGGGHHTTT got ya
hello Business Insider
would like to ask what program you guys used to do this?
That high pitch tune in the music was so irritating
No, it wasn't.
cuba, north Korea ignored
Actually Google once offer Cuba government to install fiber line but they reject it
WOW That's amazing. I Never New These Cables are under The Sea😂
Our small state get 3 cable
Some country get only one
So what's the job of satellites?
They are nonexistent!! Good f question!
GPS ? Google map ?
Super amazing matrix breaking question! They've made us think this is what they are for.. but clearly we see they have misled us.. they lie to us all the time.. the earth isn't even a globe.. and if it is, it's much bigger than they are telling us..
The remaining 1%
also: radio, satellite tv, some phone transmissions, GPS etc.
@@Magikk63 Tell me you have double-digit IQ without telling me
We'll look at that..The World Wide Web.
What about repeaters (every 50 km ?) ?
with which software can i perform such a presentation? thanks
Deez software
@@xo5587 no one did it so I'm gonna ask what does deez is?
@@angelcarlos8041 no one did it, so im gonna answear, DEEZ NUTS
@@smittywerbenjaegermanjense9213 😩
Sealand doesnt need cables for internet
how far deep under water are they?
4000 feet in some places
Are they not affected by volcano
They don't lay them by volcanoes...
internet paths
Great info for 2023
that much cable in philippines and my internet is still not stable.wtf.
what if a fish or another creature bites and breaks the wire, I am glad there are at least no rats in the ocean
Those are way tougher than normal house cables
Explains why im rich selling copper
Isn't the earth flat? 🤭🤨
Mind = blown
well, the satellites are fake, we got to be connected like this.
Ever heard of satellite dishes? satellite phones? how do you think radio broadcasts are bounced around? hell, how do you think the remaining 1% of data is transmitted?
@@nadarith1044sir radio uses antennas not satellites. For long distance broadcasts, cables are used. That is why you can barely tuned to eadio stations when you leave cities
@@LK-yd2pc Did you know? Satellite radio exists.
Not exactly a small business either, and very much uses geosynchronous sats to function.
Re-upload?
Simply OMG!
What if sharks and another mamals down there accident eat or ruin the wire?
FUK UP
bruh, the wires are really thick your know
Richard He *THICC*
JOONA 😏
I am really thick
What about underground cable networks?
On land they have lots of underground cables, but in the ocean it's impossible to do that since it's thousands of feet below the surface
This earth is a cable line
+Starlink constellation
Therefore satellites is a lie.
How do you come to that conclusion? Satellites carry internet traffic too, l work in the field of satellite transmission
And yet we can't find a missing plane
Entirely unrelated
Do fish get tangled up in it ?
Those are very thick and heavy so no
99 percent wheres the other 1 percent
everywhere else imao
Satellite
Yemen strait
Thank you capitalism
actually that's socialism
capitalism is truly great, business people with incentive can do anything
Gregory Myrvold yeah but socialism is better
I think the answer is somewhere in the middle.
I thought this was america ! Venezuela thought socialism was better to.
What happens if some of these cables are cut?
Yaaa, same question.
@@himanshuujjwal It will affect the response time. For example if you're in India and want to access content in the US West, normally it will route from India > Singapore > Hong Kong then the US. If the cable in the pacific ocean breaks, it would changes the route to Europe > US east > US West. Data transmission will take the longer way and slower.
TL;DR The data routing will go to another way which is slower.
@@DangerWrap 🙏 Thanks
You thinking what im thinking?
Wow.
All this shit and still no one can seem to find Nemo.
Again ..!!
New Zealand was never shown on the globe.
BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST
we need to cut those lines so people cant upload flatard videos
Bob Micok
Yea go ahead flatard will see how long it takes you😑
So called wireless internet needs wires.The irony.😂
This is the future collective intelligence. The next big thing will be global connection and sharing in renewable power. Data and power will be the two universal networks...
you cannot transmit power this way and you also don't need to. Have a look at Nikola Tesla
@@stefankrause5138 Yes you can, and nikola tesla left nothing useful for his 'research'
wait what ? these cables actually go across the ocean ?
ur pretty smart
@@bpdj3324 ikr! He is smarter than Einstein
first step to cyberform earth!
Looks like a conspiracy theory
Lol.. animated globe.. almost as believable as NASA's images
The earth is definitely flat 😅😅😅
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Whoa
Who pays for them?
WIRED SOUND FOR WIRED PEOPLE
its funny to see almost all cable across pasific into Philipines actually avoid Phillipines. There was more than 15 cables yet only one divert to her hahaa. The rest avoid her and hit neighbour countries... yet all cables seems attracted into Malaysia instead!...
Dimitriy Mirovsky at 156 I see 5 spots on phillipines are u looking at the wrong country ?
WH- WHAT??!!!
what's a mile?
1 mile = 1.61 KM