Interesting Links for 17-11-2021

[andrewducker]

Racism Is Institutional In British Cricket

(tags:UK cricket racism OhForFucksSake )

Supersaurus: Scientists realise dinosaur might have been the longest ever after fixing fossil mix-up

(tags:dinosaurs )

Chile wants to export solar energy to Asia via 15,000km submarine cable (losses would be just under 50%)

(tags:solarpower chile Asia )

Joanna Cherry's popularity is not going up

(tags:LGBT SNP transgender politics Scotland )

England’s austerity-hit courts losing days of work to collapsing ceilings, broken lift and arctic conditions

(tags:justice UK OhForFucksSake )

There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

(tags:Canada transport roads weather )

Remarkably accurate neurosurgery residency interview

(tags:medicine USA surgery doctors funny satire video interview )

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick told an employee he would have her killed. He kept an exec from being fired after a sexual harassment claim. He didn't tell his board of alleged rapes and other misconduct.

(tags:games rape abuse misogyny OhForFucksSake )

John Carmack on Steve Jobs

(tags:Doom games Apple stevejobs johncarmack history computers graphics opengl )

Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK

(tags:UK Amazon visa credit wtf )

The students losing thousands in an Edinburgh rental scam

(tags:edinburgh property fraud )

‘Clear risk’ UK joining Pacific trade deal will raise drug prices for NHS

(tags:uk nhs trade )

The FTC is moving to end “click to subscribe, call to cancel”

(tags:business usa )

Netflix has started publishing its top 10 watched movies and TV shows

(tags:netflix )

Dogs! Being! Kissed!

(tags:dogs behaviour )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

Mind you a 15,000 km cable does sound very courageous, on a Sir Humphrey scale of bravery.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. I think I'd want to see a couple of one's half the length be proved feasible before handing them all the cash.

Unless, of course, the difficulty of laying cables doesn't scale with length, and it's merely a case of repeatedly laying segments until you get there. I'd want to talk to several experts about that though.

[danieldwilliam]

I think the difficulty scales with depth and with the condition of the seabed. Both of which are influenced by the length. A longer cable is likely to go through deeper water and the longer the cable the more likely you are to hit difficult seabed conditions.

I think you could probably build a 3,000 km cable in shallow water and easy conditions for roughly 3 times the cost of a similar 1,000 km cable but find that a 2,000 km cable in very very deep water costs much more than twice the cost.

There may also be a limit to how deep you can put these things.Some pattern like; 100 meters, easy, 1,000 meters tricky, 6,000 meters very difficult indeed, 7,000 meters - might as well be on the moon.

[andrewducker]

I just found this, which has a bit of a map:
https://www.ft.com/content/674557bc-13c7-4010-a7f8-7b8c06b3a32e

Unfortunately, the maps of the sea floor that I've found aren't nearly detailed enough to give an idea of what the ridges are like on the way over:

[danieldwilliam]

The more detailed maps will be private in one way or another.