from the office tonight I decided to rearrange some shelves and came across my favourite article ever from good old Wired Mag: Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson. Basically it was a really long story about a cable; an undersea cable. Stephenson described it like so: “FLAG, a fiber-optic cable now being built from England to Japan, is a skinny little cuss (about an inch in diameter), but it is 28,000 kilometers long, which is long even compared to really big things like the planet Earth. When it is finished in September 1997, it arguably will be the longest engineering project in history.”
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