From: Julien, Howard (c) (Howard.Julien@mci.com)
Date: Fri Nov 13 1998 - 07:18:14 MST
Might want to go to Hawaii instead, I've heard some reasonable reports that
it is becoming _the_ digital center of the universe (small u).
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Clancy [mailto:stevie-c@technologist.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 9:39 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Crazy idea!
Methinks I have a crazy plan!
How about this; an underground tunnel, approx 1m across, which
would run from Melbourne, in Oz, under the seabed to California, housing
optical fibre cables.
The distance is about 12000km give or take.
I guesstimated that tunnelling and optical fibre costs would be
around US$2000 per metre. So that figures to be US$24G.
I would be interested in any comments on the validity or costings
of such a scheme.
(I reckon' it could be part of a global neural net of super fast data
links.)
Thanks, Steve.
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