Sea Cables
This is an interesting map of sea cables, not sea cabals (ha, Scientology joke).
It shows all the intercontinental cables that carry our internet signals. I thought there would be more.
One thing I found interesting is this: As the crow flies, the distance from, say, southern Georgia to Guam is about a third further away than the distance from Dresden to Réunion (I’m just eyeballing it). But the connection is substantially shorter to Guam than that of the latter. You’d have to either send the signal from Lisbon and around the Horn of Africa, or make your way to India and back down. By that route, the distance for me in Dresden to Skype with an uncle on Guam is about as far as it is to Skype Julie on Réunion, even though geographically Guam is substantially further away. I changed my mind. That’s not interesting at all.
Still, a cool map.
