How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days

[@MrTylertherockstar]

Underwater construction technician here; a couple things not mentioned; most of the cable in deeper sea is not heavily reinforced, because it’s super expensive to armor cable, so anything not immediate in a shore zone is susceptible to damage for this reason. Another thing worth mentioning; it takes weeks and weeks to lay this cable. Think about laying out an extension cord that’s plugged in on one end, but you need it in a perfectly straight line, but as you lay it out, you don’t want to accidentally unplug it by having too much tension, and you can’t lay it too loose because you’ll waste precious cable (which is very expensive to manufacture). The whole process is pretty interesting. There’s thousands of abandoned cables because it’s often cheaper to just lay new cable than it is to pull out the old cables.

[@NiteAtTheFort]

sadly its pretty interesting and not half as interesting so we wont learn about it😥

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Doing all that, but with steam-powered paddle wheels and only natural rubber insulation: _A Thread Across the Ocean_ , by John Steele Gordon

[@sayorancode]

@@williamchamberlain2263 they did not have fiber optic cable back then, so the cable was probably somewhat stronger, still a huge accomplishment frr

[@calaverx11]

@@NiteAtTheFort That would be a job for the main channel.

[@bsadewitz]

There are usually so many different links this is unnecessary.

[@hibrydsart5403]

As a Tongan, our internet was shit before it died anyway, lmao. Digicel is dogwater

[@ejmazzi1499]

sucks. hopefully the second cable is higher Gbps

[@FastGuy1]

Wow never thought I’d ever see a Tongan on here. Greetings 🙂

[@jojogh10]

Probably not as shit as our's here in Germany tho 😂

[@Zireael83]

@@jojogh10 as a german, i second this ^_^

[@AronBezzina]

Do you have data centers that cache some of the internet? So when you want Netflix or KZbin it’s really just coming from a local server?

[@thedarkdeity9434]

"Due to the subtle effects of 100 nuclear bombs" What a banger line, im actually crying

[@Ahzealion]

"It had to contend with the power of god! and contending with god takes about 5 weeks" also got me right after

[@Lustanda]

This happened in Vietnam in the early 2000s. Fishermen found out that "Hey fishing for dis-use undersea cable and selling them for scrap is much more profitable than going fishing and risked getting sunk by the Chinese" and then they went fishing for old submarine cables. Problem is you can't really tell that a cable is in use or not until you cut it and half the country screams for lost of internet access. It led to several lenghty imprisonment and a complete ban and buying and selling scrap cables near the coast line. If you run a scrap yard near the coast and they found undersea cables there, you are going to jail regardless of where that cable comes from.

[@shashankmahalingam5254]

HAI actually made a similar video about this already. The one with the grandma who cut Georgia's internet.

[@nopers2223322]

Was he wrong

[@ruthmaloney4378]

It's still happening regularly in Vietnam, the media always blames the sharks! But it's ridiculous a country of 100 million phone addicted people only has 5 undersea internet cables

[@shashankmahalingam5254]

@@ruthmaloney4378 Anti-shark propaganda

[@Elmindrida]

They were stealing Fiber Optic cable?? I can't imagine that would be worth much at all. People still try steal old copper (on land) since that is very lucrative. Sometimes they will cut open Fiber Optic cable (severing it), only to find it's basically worthless, and just leave it 🙃

[@PorkchopGMX]

did a grandma do this

[@stellacollector]

I understood that reference.

[@Xiodot]

So did I.

[@tomasquiros6424]

Insane reference

[@danyunsik]

reference

[@thisdeath]

lol

[@inelegy]

I was living on Ofu Island, American Samoa, the evening when the Tonga volcano blew up. We could hear and feel the explosion from nearly 600 miles away. I'm not surprised Tonga's cable was destroyed . . .

[@andyjay729]

Apparently it was heard in Alaska and the Yukon Territory in Canada. I think that's actually further than the distance Krakatoa was heard from.

[@mr.gamewatch6165]

@@andyjay729really? I live in Hawaii, and I don’t recall hearing anything about that eruption outside of news. It must’ve been one loud eruption

[@soylechuga9608]

Is it Tonga Time? I think it’s Tonga Time.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

[Internet crashes for 38 days] It was, in fact, not Tonga Time.

[@jonathanrose7760]

Ah, a fellow person of culture

[@SasquatchsCousin33]

All I came to the comment section for

[@darksunrise957]

Came here to post that XD

[@_helmi]

Pacific showdown!

[@chaosfenix]

I think another thing worth mentioning is that not all of the cables are equal. They have varying degrees of armor and definitely speeds. The oldest cable still in use is AC-1. It was originally designed for up to 40Gbps speeds though now can hit 120Gbps thanks to upgrades on the ends of it. Yeah this is pretty fast but honestly is just comparable to what you would find in most datacenters but not what you would expect from the backbone of the internet. Modern cables are much faster though with the Grace Hopper Cable hitting 352Tbps which is almost 3000x the capacity of AC-1. I guess my point is that just because some of these cables are still usable doesn't mean that they would always be worth the cost of even repairing. The single cable for a country? Sure. But all of the cables shown not so much. If AC1 ran into a similar issue I don't know if they would even bother with the repairs or would just consider it decommissioned.

[@hariranormal5584]

Even recently a large cable subsystem was decommissioned. They're like aeroplanes really, they can only be maintained ever so much and then a new system should be built or moved to by that time.

[@OliviaBry]

The evening that the Tonga volcano erupted, I was residing on Ofu Island in American Samoa. We heard and felt the explosion from approximately 600 kilometers away. I am not shocked that Tonga's cable was destroyed.

[@shawnjoseph4009]

Honestly the fact they fixed it in about a month is incredibly impressive considering they were both also dealing with the aftermath of the explosion and it was broken in many places

[@Artista_Frustrado]

shoutouts to the Sharks who edited this video & stood up against the Shark Slander

[@NexusEye]

A large enough volcanic eruption probably could break two cables at once but we don't need to worry about that both because such an eruption is incredibly unlikely and because in the event of such an eruption there probably wouldn't be any Tongans left alive to want an internet connection, or anyone in a several thousand kilometer radius left alive to want an internet connection for that matter.

[@peterknutsen3070]

I came here to write this.

[@sayorancode]

what if it errupts right where the 2 cables meet

[@_fishy]

@@sayorancodethey meet where the people are

[@mesiroy1234]

Bro ‏‪3:04‬‏ its litrealy glass fiber 😂

[@johnchessant3012]

1:47 "including one that seems to just ensure that Illinois and Michigan can spread gossip about Indiana without them listening" lmao

[@ChuxPadaina]

As an Indiana resident I feel left out :(

[@CityState_of_Valletta]

@@ChuxPadainaas an Illinois resident I just want to confirm that the gossip is about you particularly

[@ChuxPadaina]

@@CityState_of_Valletta :(

[@supportpossum5672]

@@ChuxPadainaMichigan resident here. It’s tons of fun, you’re missing out.

[@drdewott9154]

Honestly good timing on this. I'm from Denmark and here in Denmark we, along with our neighbours in Sweden, has had several sabotages and attempted sabotages happen against undersea internet cables in the baltic sea and the Kattegat. Namely by a chinese freight ship called the Yi Peng 3, which has run in unusual patterns, semingly to specifically target and sabotage undersea internet cables by dragging its anchor across the bottom of the sea in an attempt to sever them. Which so far has knocked out the C-Lion1 cable. It is heavily suspected that the ships crew is working with the Russian army to do these sabotages to punish these Scandinavian countries for aiding Ukraine. And that wouldnt be the first, we've essentially been the victim of Hybrid warfare for a decade now from Russia. But regardless, when it coms to the Yi ping 3, as much as authorities would love to board, they can't, as the ship is currently at a standstill in international waters, meaning that neither Denmark or Swedens authorities have legal permission to board and inspect the vessel. And any attemp to do so now would likely cause a diplomacy disaster that could trigger further Russian aggression and retaliation from China.

[@fredericapanon207]

@drdewott9154, came here looking for your comment.

[@_helmi]

Me over in Kuala Lumpur is oblivious to this maritime drama that's currently unfolding. It's very interesting to note that several warships from Denmark were deployed to monitor this particular ship on international waters which essentially playing I'm-not-touching-you lol

[@willryan8694]

This is essentially an act of war from China/Russia

[@rileygladue3979]

Sounds like they could use a visit from some somali pirates

[@milesmartin9624]

Honestly a lot of Starlink users aren't even really Elon fans, it's just the first actual fast internet for a lot of super rural people.

[@LHH916]

I thought that the volcanoes name was a joke

[@elig6972]

Glad that I wasn't the only one

[@thisdeath]

haha same

[@Λεμόνι]

There's copper in them internet

[@irvalfirestar6265]

it’s the combined name for two volcanoes (Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha’apai) so that’s why it sounds a bit too long

[@timmccarthy9917]

They were two volcanic islands, and then gradually they grew into one volcanic island with a long name, and then they blew up into a large ash cloud and several tiny islands

[@allaryin]

My parents lived on one of the more remote islands of Tonga a few years back, and the internet they did have access to was so limited that just the sort of background windows update check and banner ad traffic that happened while checking email was enough to cripple connections.

[@RadikAlice]

Yet more reason to use ad blockers on a hardware level

[@thewhitewolf58]

Grandma was in the hospital for a week. Did not have access to fox news. Said it was one of the most calmest times of her life. Then gets home with grandpa blasting fox news where you could hear it across the floor. It is nice to unplug at times. People say unplug from social media but I say unplug from the news because it will make heaven look like it is burning down if thats how the station can get enough money.

[@sophiatheodores7985]

but never should you unplug from half as interesting!

[@krashd]

Fox news is brainrot, a channel designed to scare people.

[@erich_ika]

who asked

[@丫o]

@erich_ika who cares

[@sayorancode]

well not having fox news must be pretty calming

[@forgottenfamily]

0:50: I really wanted you to say "The whole global internet is a series of tubes"

[@fish3977]

were the analogue not made in opposition to net neutrality, I'd feel bad for the dude. It is actually pretty good one - even if the "tubes" would likely not be the limiting factor.

[@GoatTheGoat]

Repairing the outage in only thirty-eight days is incredibly quick. Ridiculously fast actually.

[@andy2641]

nah i could do it faster

[@GoatTheGoat]

@@andy2641 So, why didn't you?

[@korakys]

No, actually it's pretty slow. Normally broken cables are just far, far less broken than this one. On account of cable breakage via volcano being a rare event.

[@ivanlol7153]

@@GoatTheGoatthey were busy fixing other cables

[@andy2641]

@@GoatTheGoat i didn't own the lil repair ship they were using. but i prolly woulda just used like a lil submarine with arms and just put the cables back together

[@SeverityOne]

I live on an island with four such cables (two more are coming). One of them was laid by my the company I work for. There was a special day where we and our families could go aboard the vessel, and see what's going on. Essentially, it's big ship with a couple of _really_ big round compartments for the cable, and some equipment to get the cable into the water.

[@mistformsquirrel]

As an Illinoisan - Indiana knows what it did. And now so does Michigan.

[@daleb194]

We're sorry! Plug us back in

[@technobyrd8]

Fyi starlink doesn't carry backhaul, only subscriber traffic, so in most situations, it's not carrying intercontinental traffic. That satellite traffic is routed through GEO satellites, if not routed through undersea cables

[@carter9449]

1:05 I'm pretty sure way more that 1% of internet traffic is domestic. Many companies run local cache servers

[@TheGamehorn]

I think they were talking about trans-oceanic traffic. Most of the actual traffic is indeed domestic

[@iicx4250]

Yes that is true, worth noting though that a lot of local servers will not function as usual without a connection to the main servers. Would probably take a few hours or days to make sure most servers can run independent of other servers

[@in4init3vr]

1:15 Starlink is also very big in the military, as in remote areas, or most places on the frontlines, there is no chance to use classical DSL, and Starlink is a pretty small and cheap-ish option, so they can just bring one, and cover the antenna with some leaves or other items to reduce its thermal footprint.

[@FruityKoala]

You’d think militaries would have their own satellites ‘ey

[@FullLengthInterstates]

Personally, I think its pretty cool that these cable repair ships are still being well utilized and outliving their design life. its frankly amazing that an island nation this small and fragmented can get wired internet at all

[@Hiphop618]

bu- but... CAPITALISM BAD

[@MicahHugo]

1:37 "Iceland is connected by four cables." uhhh I see five bud

[@xiphosura413]

Perhaps he averaged out 5 cables and 3 connection points lmao

[@chicoliu6057]

Error alert 🚨 These cables aren’t responsible for 99% of internet traffic. Most traffic communicate with domestic servers, there’s no need to stream from US server if you live in Japan.

[@gamechip06]

I just hate it when my day is slightly inconvenienced by a volcanic eryption with the power of 100 nuclear bombs.

[@leftynotliberal]

I once heard a story about an early internet pioneer named Milo Medin. In the 1980s, he reportedly shut down the internet in I believe Sweden, because someone was rude to him on the phone. Unfortunately, I can’t recall any more details. I also remember hearing that he was the last individual to own a top-level IP address (10.*.*.*).

[@imonymous]

Swedish internet in the 1970s, eh? He must have not told anyone else about it.

[@leftynotliberal]

Oops. I meant 80s.

[@bsadewitz]

No one owns any 10 address. Those are reserved for local addresses, like what a home firewall hands out. If you mean a class A network, I am skeptical that any one individual was ever assigned one of those. HIGHLY skeptical. There was no "top level". There used to be classes A, B, C that looked like that, but those aren't levels, it was just an assignment convention. That is, there was no actual difference in how the classes were handled. Today, they don't use those classes anymore.

[@johnopalko5223]

@@bsadewitz 10.0.0.0/8 addresses are, indeed, now RFC 1918 reserved addresses, but they were used in the days of ARPANET and the very early Internet. I don't remember to whom they were assigned. I want to say DECWRL but I'm not sure.

[@TheChirozachtor]

Oh no it would be a disaster to miss 8 HAI episodes in Tonga

[@piuthemagicman]

Of which 3 were bangers! 😭

[@TheChirozachtor]

@ exactly!

[@TerynCate]

Something kind of like this happened in Anguilla, I believe the story is there was only one cable that connected the island to the rest of the world and a yacht dragged its anchor over the cable, fortunately it was in relatively shallow water so we only went without internet and cell data for two and a half days. I still haven't seen coverage about this anywhere.

[@silpheedTandy]

4:40 i hope some indie video game developer does a lot of research on various locations that cable repair had been done, the difficulties encountered, and then creates a "Undersea Internet Cable Repair Simulator" game. it sound like it might be fun to play.

[@billwhite1603]

and....sometimes China and/or Russia cuts them with China's patented tool designed to just cut undersea cables.

[@PurpleAmharicCoffee]

My father partook in search and rescue on the Pacific. He described it as soul-crushing .

[@BaselineNL620]

we are building a brand new cable repair ship to expand the fleet! its a massive undertaking, but it will be very capable.

[@payrysdoscs4903]

The only Tongans who still had access to internet at the time were people who evacuated, like my friend Jane. I was still able to be in contact with Jane within days of the eruption, as she'd fled the country and settled in 🇦🇺 for a couple months.

[@robertk1701]

Just because Starlink was mentioned, it seems to be pretty good. My inlaws recently got it. Before, they were paying I think about as much for garbage DSL as I do for gigabit fiber. Starlink isn't worth it if you live in a reasonably developed area, but for people that live out in the middle of nowhere it's wonderful.

[@Foreverwhatever]

Starlink is making it possible for me that live in a remote area to watch and subscribe to this channel

[@gus29361]

​@Foreverwhatever same here, starlink is pretty crazy stuff. We went from a shitty cellular Hotspot to starlink and the difference is night and day. No more waiting for things to download

[@goldbullet50]

It's bad if it can circumvent any restrictions imposed by countries to the internet, and its inherently destructive effect on modern humanity. Some day, it will probably become impossible for any community to reliably disconnect.

[@unitrader403]

@@goldbullet50 sounds like something the CCP would say...

[@goldbullet50]

@@unitrader403 Yeah, they've had their Great Firewall for quite some time now. Yet they still use the internet. Internet is the best propaganda outlet the world has ever seen, and especially now with AI and advanced algorithms, the front page of a few major online giants will dictate how billions will view the world.

[@PauxloE]

→ 1:03 "Underwater fiberoptic cable ... carry 99% of all internet traffic in the world." - I guess "of the transcontinental internet traffic"? I assume large amounts of the global traffic stay inside one country, and thus won't ever need to touch one of these cables. (Doesn't help Tonga, of course.) → 13:37 "Iceland, for example, is connected by 4 different undersea cables" - the map clearly shows 5?

[@noom_real]

7:24 crazy voice crack 😂

[@brreeaad]

It's always a banger hai/wp video when they show where a specific ship was at a certain time

[@Faraonqa]

you know what's funny, im using star link because apparently living in this specific house in Munich means i have NO cable connection service possible from any provider....so we just went with musk as much as i despise the guy

[@krashd]

Can you not even access the internet via cell towers?

[@edfreak9001]

yeah that's just what some people gotta do,internet especially in the US is just deserts of monopolies

[@lauriekimani]

​@@krashd cellular Internet is often way too expensive compared to even starlink.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

This is crazy common in the USA too. I had a friend who rented an apartment in a small apartment complex (like 8 units) in the middle of Orlando. He didn't even think to ask about internet because it was 2022 so that's like asking if it has electricity. Anyway, it didn't have internet. The building WAS set up for DSL, but the phone company wasn't selling new DSL accounts, only fiber. And the apartment building would have to pay to have the fiber ran. The landlord wasn't about to spend the $20k or whatever for fiber because half the people were fine with their grandfathered in DSL and the other half were old and didn't even have internet. So my friend purchased a HUGE Wi-Fi antenna (like a 3 foot dish) and was able to get on the public Wi-Fi from a McDonald's or Starbucks that was like a mile away. It was slow but better than using up all his mobile data.

[@momofgeniuskid]

I really want to read your book Sam. "The problem with everything is capitalism" sounds extremely interesting! ❤

[@privateprivacy5570]

The background music makes this kinda stressful.

[@cmikhail7289]

man, that's probably what Chinese Communist Party and whichever branch of their army would do if it would enclose either Japan, Taiwan or Philippines. Philippines rely on 10 to 20 subsea lines, Taiwan rely on 10 to 14 lines, Japan has 100 to 200 lines.

[@klopferator]

A Chinese freighter is currently being investigated on suspicion of deliberately damaging two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea last month, so it's not that much of a speculation anymore whether they would do something like this.

[@heny3776]

CCP is planning on doing this.

[@jeltje50]

Wasn't the CCP involved in the Russian cutting some wires in Europe. They are gonna do this when shit hits the fan.

[@piuthemagicman]

Yeah about that... I'm from Finland and the Russians paid a shady Chinese fishing vessel to cut one of our internet cables.

[@brian8152]

China has already destroyed undersea cables. They rely on “plausible deniability “ but purposefully shutting off your transponder and not noticing your anchor is dragging on the ocean floor, with a literal cable cutting implement on the anchor itself lol. Unfortunately nothing is likely come from this, like with the thousands of times China does a terrible thing. Can’t offend the worlds factory, where else will we get cheap plastic landfill fodder 😮lol

[@RJD2809]

Why is the background music so loud?

[@Galactipod]

3:25 It's ships, not boats. Ships and boats are mutually exclusive. A boat cannot be a ship, and a ship cannot be a boat. They're both vessels, they're both craft. And a seagoing thing that doesn't have propulsion could be considered a craft but not a vessel...

[@JoannaHiggins-nr1ky]

Great job on this! Really appreciate the effort you put into it. Keep it up!

[@leahsmilezzzzzzz]

Imo this is way more than HAI... given Russian ships have been seen (or gone dark) by key underwater cables in both the Baltic and Atlantic.

[@sh_project1999]

2:55 a Video about that chart is obviously soon to come, isn’t it?

[@OspreyMantis]

This brings a whole new meaning to: Its tonga time

[@shoredude2]

Fewer people live in Tonga (104,494 per 2021 estimates) than the capacity of Beaver Stadium at Penn State (106,572).

[@Soul-Burn]

7:41 Brick reference!!

[@Azula-slugcat]

Imagine having a conversation with your friends and then the WiFi cuts out and a month later you say sorry my wifi went out, i dont think they would believe you

[@Данилтычкрейзи]

clearly, you just need to say sorry my undersea internet cable broke

[@PJWestfield]

Wait! What happened to Amy? She hasn't been mentioned in several videos. Is she on secret assignment, resigned or fired? Did she refuse to do some outside investigative work? Inquiring minds want to know.

[@0topon]

I think she was fired after refusing to travel to a tiny pacific island for an investigation on shark attacks on undersea cables :(

[@ppgpp109]

Smp rules: "no combat logging" Internet: disconnects "But its the entire country having no internet-" Admin: banned, this is such a bad excuse The reality:

[@skylark.kraken]

Idk, when you said 2022 I figured that it was going to be Tonga, so I knew where it was for you to then say that 38 days is a long time, 38 days is so short

[@lchi1234]

Oh hey you guys have dedicated captions now! That’s very cool!

[@thomasrinschler6783]

They've really upped their captions game.The ones on Jet Lag are amazing, and are colored to indicate whoever is speaking.

[@littlekirby6]

5 weeks to fix internet? Sounds faster than my Internet Service Provider, am i right fellas?

[@stevestevensofficial]

Imagine explaining to your friend that the reason you left him on read was an internet outage that lasted a month

[@monterraythehomeless]

And that the cause was a volcano

[@丫o]

Pretty sure anyone with friends or family in Tonga would hear about it on the news

[@monterraythehomeless]

This is why comedy is dead 💀

[@Jiggerjaw]

How have they been fixing Internet cables for two centuries?

[@dzmo-official]

Now that, my friend, is a good question 💯

[@jamiestl89]

Undersea cables. Don’t know what they were used for before phone and telegraph connections.

[@toomanyopinions8353]

Sorry, he should have clarified. They've been fixing undersea cables for 2 centuries. First starting with telegraphs. I assume he didn’t say that bc it’s totally irrelevant to the issue, they’re layed and fixed in the exact same way regardless of what type of communication is running through the cable.

[@Jiggerjaw]

@toomanyopinions8353 so, 175 years. Decidedly less than two centuries.

[@toomanyopinions8353]

@@Jiggerjaw I think Sam probably rounded up.

[@TheHylianBatman]

I love hearing about this sort of thing. The Pacific is such an interesting part of our world, and we all seem to sleep on it.

[@xdrkcrow5563]

First (only because people from Tonga couldn’t)

[@nemanjamaksimovic1263]

💀💀

[@maxrburgess]

This reminds me of the time both cables connecting Tasmania to the mainland were severed at 2 different construction sites simultaneously. Luckily they knew where the break was and it was on land. I was disappointed that they didn't have some way of routing through our skymuster satellites though. edit: I'm suggesting it'd be theoretically possible to connect between 2 base stations bouncing off a satellite. They could also just use the other telecom cable but the NBN didn't have any capacity on that, only Telstra.

[@BrendanGeormer]

Does anyone know if Tonga uses fixed wireless between their islands to reduce the need for last-mile connections of fiber?

[@danielbishop1863]

The whole idea of "we can communicate globally by laying thousands of miles of cables at the bottom of the ocean" would sound utterly insane, were it not for the fact that people having been actually doing it since 1854.

[@MikeCee7]

How do they know, at which point in the ocean floor, of the exact (approximate) spot where cable needs to be repaired? 4:47

[@Eamonshort1]

Holy shit I knew about the volcano, I had no idea the erruption was that powerful, goddamn

[@Mohammed_plt]

1:16 okay but the dentist’s drill that plays music instead of that god awful sound is so real

[@theorixlux]

I dunno. That cigar clipper IUD sounds kinda funny

[@Mohammed_plt]

@@theorixlux cigar clipper 😭😭 perhaps bested only by the “let’s give poor people constipation”

[@keiyakins]

​@@theorixlux yeah but it's just the dentata from snow crash

[@MeetThaNewDealer]

38 days without the internet isn't so bad. That'll finally give me enough time to read the entire Wheel of Time Series and the Malazan Book of the Fallen Series. 😊

[@exvaran]

But how do you buy your books if Amazon is down

[@thewhitewolf58]

Personally my policy is that we are not too busy, we are just heavily distracted with constant entertainment. If we put effort into it we could all make 1 hour to read per day. If we honestly where so busy youtube would have crashed and burned years ago but it thrives because we make time for it. Same with cable tv for the boomers.

[@FutureCommentary1]

But my library is online and I read ebooks.

[@bltzcstrnx]

Unless your work requires them.

[@Iaped]

Sam! We want more jet lag vids

[@neutralspace-ishguy]

Tonga and early 2022. I just know it's gonna be that eruption. I remember sunrises and sunsets were noticeably violet for a week in Indonesia.

[@saturnv2419]

At certain time it will be easier to just lay new cables than repairing old ones.

[@kalexambing2507]

6:51 I just cackled at this stupid fish 😅

[@jakemakesthings9955]

So connection between HAI videos, a place that uses starlink a lot is Bethel Alaska a city featured in HAI for having the most taxis

[@DanH-u3f]

A China flagged ship dragged its anchor and cut the cable right?

[@elliotearles8302]

6:58 was the hardest I've laughed at an HAI episode in a long time

[@WilVincent88]

Good Sponsor spot by showing the sponsor to be discussed in 90 seconds time.

[@PhredMacmurray]

Isn’t selling a book about the evils of capitalism in essance capitalism.

[@bajwa5759]

Fun Fact : Hungary sharks do exist in Pakistan and they cut the under sea cables once a month

[@HenrikWigum]

I couldn't even survive an hour

[@TehLiquid]

How a whole country lost the worst thing that has happened to humanity since the atom bomb for 38 days

[@RoyaltyInTraining.]

The name of that volcano sounds so incredibly satisfying

[@ToroidalVortices]

I imagine everyone came out of that 38 days later going "My body, I like my body! Wow, what a difference not seeing insta models does. Wow, I feel so much better. I didn't know anything about US politics, and I didn't need to! The world didn't end!" lmao.

[@Tinil0]

On the bright side, some of those twitter replies are clearly "taking the piss" as they say in France. On the not so bright side, some of them aren't. And that is horrifically sad.

[@Tinil0]

Actually, let's play a game: Which is the saddest actually earnest request? Where do you think the line is?

[@cxzact9204]

I know it's fun making fun of billionaires, but Starlink would fully solve this problem really hard, no?

[@bsadewitz]

In this case, maybe (?) I don't know what the bandwidth available is, what the latency is, etc. Generally, you'd probably still want fiber, I think. Its probably more reliable and capable of higher data rates than Starlink. I don't care how awesome Elon Musk says it is. If you've got bad enough weather, your link is GONE. It's Ka/Ku band microwave. They claim it's not a thing, but I don't buy it.

[@krashd]

Starlink is good but it's not as fast latency wise as a cable link so the only people that would ever need Starlink are those in an area that can't get the internet by any other means, I suppose if you had the cash, and you couldn't live without the internet, then you could buy a Starlink terminal and keep it in a drawer for days when your regular internet connection went down.

[@varana]

Not sure how much Starlink in particular was affected, but the exploding volcano also disturbed satellite communication in the area.

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Ngl, arms expecting the sponsor of this video to be ground news; tho tbh, who needs that when you have half as interesting? :p

[@Terinije]

1:46 dude, shut up, we’re keeping that a secret from the Hoosiers.

[@axvo7556]

Imagine Australia offering you internet, you've got to be in desperate times for such measures.

[@algotkristoffersson15]

6:31 Why not just lay a new cable?

[@TheRealSpork.]

Capitalism.

[@_Dimon_]

too expensive probably

[@palmberry5576]

You’re right, why didn’t they just lay another 750000 meter cable

[@45545videos]

Insanely expensive, especially for an island of 100K

[@algotkristoffersson15]

@@45545videos considering the circumstances it would be easier

[@DuckOfRubber]

4:31 2 centuries? Not so sure about that one. Source?

[@Natogoon]

I think that 'laying cable' can have multiple meanings

[@FutureCommentary1]

The title only is making me so anxious. How do you function without internet?

[@codywohlers2059]

would be better without distracting music

[@Aubrey2004-j4k]

Facts

[@wilsonli5642]

I have a sneaking suspicion that the cable across Lake Michigan is used by high-frequency traders to communicate between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the exchanges in New York. Anyone know for sure?

[@z0mbie.beast125]

Im in northern ontario Canada, where all of us that dont live in a city have made the switch to starlink, and its 100% worth the money. Our old land internet (Bell) was not only much much slower but was always going down. Why tf hasnt all of those islands not switched to satellite internet

[@JohnHagenis_awesome]

1:17 that whole bottom left quadrant is talking crazy

[@Noahvelli21]

Surprised and disappointed that you didn’t mention the rash of Russian/Chinese sea-cable cutting, its future geopolitical implications as well its implications on the laying and repairing of wires

[@Fabian-qj4zz]

4:30 The cables have been fixed the same way for nearly two centuries? Does this refer to a broader range of cables or is it about internet cables?

[@Kitt_the_Katt]

Well, my teachers were wrong. Apparently there is such a thing as a stupid question.

[@varana]

Not precisely internet cables, but undersea communication cables have been a thing since the mid-1800s. The first ones for telegraph communication (with terrible bandwidth :D), but the general idea of how they work is more or less the same.

[@Fabian-qj4zz]

@@varana Thank you, that makes sense. I suspected they were referring to a specific kind internet cables and Sam meant to say decades instead of centuries

[@Elmindrida]

​@Fabian-qj4zz as Varana said, he was referring to "undersea cables" not "undersea Fiber Optic cables".

[@storyspren]

Why do sharks like chewing on them? Do they do it to feel that tingle we feel when licking battery poles? Are they like kids or dogs in that they gotta try everything with their mouth to figure out what it is? Something something electroreception?

[@nicktechnubyte1184]

Reminds me of hurricane Sandy Didn't have any Internet or power for days! Everyone was looking for batteries and almost every store was eventually sold out After that, I invested in portable power supplies Now I'll never have to worry about power loss ever again