Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire 

Theyre morays not electric eels

@@zac9311 That's *a-moray!*

That's a moray

I help the environment by tossing car batteries to feed the electric eels. A fun and legal thrill

@@a-l-55help the environment too much and environmental engineers will be out of a job

He did. You just didn't sea it.

It's not Sam tho

​@@rohankishibe8259He might not have written the script, but who was going to stop him if he made the joke anyways?

@@goinkosu what??!

It's the new ICUP

Lmao I was thinking the same thing. That’s why it doesn’t matter where you are in the world, if you threaten the president you’ll have someone knocking on your door

Yep

So it sounds like they are probably right. But FYI, that's not how the US does it. We have special submarines that install special devices after the cable is laid. Totally different.

@@petergerdes1094 Questionable. Splicing fibre optic cable is generally impossible. Copper, sure. I think Subcon is probably not a real company.

@@dansands8140 I don't think you need to splice it. I believe you can carefully bend it until some of the light leaks out and capture that. Maybe it has to be at an amplifier...not sure. And yes that does involve cutting through the exterior cable but a multi-billion budget lets you do alot...or maybe they can splice it but I don't think we keep around the special submarines just for copper wires.

Fun Fact: Sigmund Freud once tried to disect internet cables to find its reproductive organs, only to find that they'll only have organs during mating season

I take any chance to talk about underwater cables that is presented to me! They're just so damn cool and interesting! They have extending hidden jaws just like xenomorphs from Alien and one species can flop itself up on land and use it's extendo-jaw to grab stuff like crabs lol.

I do love câble avocado sushi 😅

this is way funnier than it deserves to be 😂

😂😂😂

It made me so happy

Where?

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I wish bricks were mentioned on this channel more .

@@BojanMilic84 absolutely! Bricks are such an integral part of our lives. This channel is a disappointment for not being able to deliver us the bricks content we need.

​​@@nityodaytekchandani701it actually is lol, thinking about it, bricks are used to create houses, which give warmth and shelter to us

@@briishteabag no way really???

@@videogames8261 yeah man i really definitely just realized!!1!!!1!11

Half as Interesting has mastered the use of stock footage to the point where it's an entirely new artistic medium.

Well as early as 2 years ago, they were caught spying on their own allies in Europe lol

As much as I don't trust the US government, I don't trust the Chinese government far more.

Oh I complete trust the US to spy on my internet traffic. 😂 enjoying the boring ass content I browse I guess.

I'd personally rather the US than China considering the US wouldn't care about me.

If something happens to your data though, would you rather deal with a Western democracy one, or a Mainland China one? If you think there's a non-NATO/Russia/China/Middle East neutral territory you can trust with your data, think again -- they're likely influenced by foreign intelligence services because that's how they get the funding to provide international-level service.

They actually did one for mobile cell towers, so they definitely understand the concept!

Since the wavelength of visible light determines as what color we perceive it, that means it's more like... blue/red (or UV/IR etc.) instead of on/off?

​@@Blex_040More like blue + red + whatever other wavelengths they can manage. More wavelengths = higher bandwidth. Google wavelength-division multiplexing if you're curious.

@@asdasd-hb3vg So... Wouldn't that be fundamentally the same as FDM in the traditional (RF) networking world?

@@iworms Pretty much so.

But do you wish he would have used a more recent picture? 😉 I got to tour one of the ships in Baltimore back in 2014. Always loved hearing stories from the Subcom guys back when it was part of TE!

@@moredotsWe just came out of the shipyard in May and have a totally diffferent color scheme! Either way we enjoyed being the only vessel mentioned in the video!

Yet that same city can't fill potholes or improve like 3 schools with that amount of money 😂

Too many voters are "I got mine" retirees who have the time to go to the polls (because convenience for students/young adults/homeless/expats/"certain" neighborhoods is not seen as important) and vote to cash out and live a life of consumption at the expense of their descendants, moving to Florida if they're not appeased.

​​​@@snailsaredumb9412 I'm not surprised. The US seems to love ridiculously wide lanes, massive swathes of asphalt, and carburbia. The upkeep cost of that is enormous. Denser cities, trains, trams, buses, and narrower lanes/less parking, and suddenly not only is it more pleasant to live in, there's a lot fewer potholes, too. Even NYC, the city with the best transit in the entire US and honest to god actual sidewalks, has way, way, WAY too much asphalt everywhere.

@@Olivia-W Mid size US cities wouldn't exist at that density, all those people would be displaced into larger US cities and there would just be empty land.

@@Croz89 nah that's just silly. My suburban town it's the car by decades, and had a couple trolleys and trains running through it. Most areas need more minimalistic road infra. Back roads should be gravel etc

They are very strong. Sharks can't do anything

​@@Dr.Kraig_Ren me summoning a very strong shark to bite the cable for your home internet connection:

@@Dr.Kraig_Ren what about a sharknado, but underwater?.

US summoning a boat drone to obliterate the cable:

​@@jotch_7627me making the cable as hard as diamonds and giving smg's to defend itself

It's interesting how the US government used the same tactics with NordStream 2... and when the scare tactics and sanctions didn't work (they only delayed the construction) and it was actually finalized, "Russia (with an economy that depended on NS2) blew it up" and we haven't heard about NS2 in the news again. Yup, an attack on European/NATO soil, and the result is secretive investigations and total silence on the news front. All very normal.

the market didn't exactly decide fairly, considering the heavy chinese subsidies. so its more like china: hang on now usa: nuh uh

so you want someone to explain to you how computers work?

@@royce9018 Not computers in general, specifically the equipment specialised to deal with these extremely high volumes of data. A normal computer wouldn't be able to handle anything near that amount of data, they probably need specially designed hardware

That sort of information isn't very accessible unfortunately

@@chucklebutt4470 Sadly true

I believe it'd be a big Internet Exchange Point, or something similar. The cables first go to a landing station that provides power, then they can continue on land for some distance to a termination station where it interfaces with the land-based network. Presumably this is just a giant warehouse of switches (and hardware for decoding the fiber optics signals)

Haven't laughed like that at an HAI joke since "smaller than [small country], [small country] and [small country] *combined*"

To clarify, it's not like I think china wouldn't try to spy on us if it had the chance to do so. It's obvious they would, like everyone else. I just don't like how some countries always prentend to be "the good guys" while they clearly are not.

I guarantee you other countries do the same, its just in the best interest of every country to take information of others, and to keep its citizens' information as hidden as possible

Also the US: muh free market *Government interference, tax payer subsidized bribery-by-other-names, and sanctions*

That's just being human. There's no such thing as a free lunch. There's always Someone who will try to game the system, because it benefits them. This is why the global economy is the crackerbarrel it is. It's a poker game. Everybody's lying about what cards they hold. So, nobody trusts anybody. Every relationship is contingent, And those running the show believe in hierarchies, and hegemony. So, that's never going to work out, as we don't learn from our mistakes. Generational forgetfulness plagues us, and we're making the same fundamental mistakes in our economy and politics, that destroyed civilisations in Antiquity. It's just that nice new labels are applied.

Um... we know? It's about preference; I'd rather have the U.S. government (or the U.K., France, Germany, Japan, or other Low-Corruption Democracies) spying on me than China. All governments are going to spy to some degree, and all companies are adherent to the rules of their nation first and foremost. More information allows a nation to better make decisions, so all governments are going to spy to some degree. This, in turn, means all nations are going to want to counteract other nation's spying activities. So, whether its this internet cable or any other technological product that has the ability to store/transfer sensitive data, the U.S. is obviously going to attempt to prevent nations perceived as posing a security risk from ascertaining control. And since spying is going to have some benefits, they will partake in that as well. The U.S. is not different from any other nation (and doesn't necessarily present itself to be). I'm not sure where your getting this idea that Americans think that our government (or that of other nations) doesn't spy on us, as anyone who believes that would have to have been living under a rock for the past decade. There have been numerous scandals related to the U.S. govt. conducting surveillance on its own citizens, and that of allied nations. However, that is still the preferred outcome to the Chinese doing so.

Spy eels that can relay information from other countries. Genius!

Get and train eels to line up and shock in sequence so that they can carry signal

don't forget to call it quantum AI transmission

Name the company CableGate. Don't forget to make the cables from carbon fiber. I've heard that they are really strong underwater...

AMERICANS SPYING????? they would NEVER

It is much harder for America to contain its international spying. That's why most people know of the spying the US has done, because US news outlets did their jobs and reported on it and guess what they didn't get executed by their government. I wonder what would happen in China if the same thing happened? (The answer is they would be executed)

But it's FREEDOM spying. 😅

If the american cables glow green, would the chinese ones glow red?

The difference is that the US government has limitations on its ability to force private companies to disclose their data for spying purposes. The CCP does not, and routinely forces Chinese companies to cough up any data the government wants. If you think these are equivalent, then you don't understand how the either government works.

Now think that the first one was put there in 1858.... The first to be used reliably was laid in 1865.

@@artbk The landing site for it in Cornwall has become the Museum of Global Communication which is a really interesting place to visit because it's more or less where everything underlying global communication today was invented but also where most modern surveillance techniques were developed.

Light is the fastest thing we know of so why not use it to transmit data?

I wasn't aware it was possible to pronounce it incorrectly...

@@safebox36 They pronounce it mel-born

@@namarrkon sounds like a burn to me

Mellborrrrrrn

melbs

Lmao same. I was watching another of his videos and then this popped up. Coincidence? I think NOT.

That's the name of the espionage operation onto it.

Why not just do it all by the meter then? Plus I think inches might be the best deal but idk im not a tech expert

That's why everyone outside the US does use km.

@@laurasisson1611 You have to pay a significant cut to inch worms whenever you use inches so that actually raises the price back up.

if at any point it goes on land in their controlled territory - they don't need to, they can listen to it from there. Otherwise they can use UUV's for seabed warfare to install some listening devices regardless. And of course they can bribe the country in which it goes on land to "help them" as well. Currently couple countries have similar Seabed Warfare capabilities. China is among them. So this wasn't about espionage really. It was about tech superiority and controlling companies who have such expertise.

@@jannegrey593 Yeah US intelligence kinda relies on the internet being more or less invented in the US so the entire modern internet routes through the internet. And they also have had a very easy time getting allied countries to work together with them to tap internet cables in their territory, it's called the 5 Eyes Alliance and the 7 Eyes Alliance.

@@hedgehog3180 Denmark for example quite readily spied on other EU countries for US. I wouldn't look only for 5 eyes or 7 eyes, but more widely. Most countries that are allied with US will share at least part of intelligence with it. Usually all of it - if US reciprocates.

They already do Snowden leaked it before

@@NeostormXLMAX yup

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​@@andrewpinedo1883 Of still works, this is a RU-vid comment, not an English language exam.

he makes minor mistakes on purpose to drive up engagement in the comments

i assume mostof it already is

I mean you can literally just do that yourself. It's not up to the cable to encrypt communication, it's up to the sender and receiver. The internet is built to be completely agnostic about the data it is sending so you can send encrypted data and it'll work just fine and no one will be able to intercept it assuming your encryption method is solid.

@@DropaBombOnM Well im not sure how deep sea cable internet is managed, but all websites with an thing are encrypted. My logic is that the man in the middle attacks only happen to the websites that still are only HTTP://, or have security problems.

To clarify: the app level can do its own encryption and usually does (e.g. your web browser w/ HTTPS). But I don't think the physical links themselves are encrypted - and way too much of the software out there is made really poorly by low-tier engineering practices, which is where you might find some exploits.

People who research for him. People who edit for him. 99 % stock photos. Read a text - boom - Video

It's called team work

Teamwork

In this kind of job, it makes perfect sense. You're on a ship in the middle of the ocean, so it's not as if after your shift ends you can just go home to see your family and come back the next day. So, because your commute is long and expensive (you're thousands of miles from home), and there isn't anywhere to go after your shift ends (you're still on a ship in the middle of the ocean), what you do is work a lot of hours, but not all the time. There are many schedules, but a common one is that you get on the ship and work for 30 days, then you go home for 20 days. You're still taking time off, you just take it all together where it matter, and not aboard the ship. Also, you rarely work 12 hours straight, it's generally organized in 3 shifts per day of 4 hours each. So, it's 12 hours in total, but not 12 hours without rest.