'tunnel' links new york to london.

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May 23, 2008 at 3:23 pm #1044556
process
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One end of the “tunnel” emerges next to Tower Bridge on the banks of the Thames in London – the other is next to Brooklyn Bridge on the banks of New York’s East River.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7415911.stm

cool.
May 23, 2008 at 3:36 pm #1172412
Southcaver
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pretty nifty:weee:
May 23, 2008 at 3:40 pm #1172408
General Lighting
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Its a interesting housing, but the bit what makes it work is merely a digital video link on a private fibre optic circuit

To be fair this is fucking expensive kit and infrastructures (the link alone is equivalent to the power of 150 SDSL broadband circuits) [1]- fair play to the artist and project managers for letting the public play with it..

[1] and if you asked BT for such a circuit you would be talking about the cost of a small car just for line rental as well as about 50 grands worth of equipment at each end, plus the HD camera…
May 23, 2008 at 5:54 pm #1172416
Dom_sufc
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What an Interesting waste of money :laugh_at:
May 23, 2008 at 6:03 pm #1172409
General Lighting
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Dom_sufc wrote:

What an Interesting waste of money :laugh_at:

the fibre optic is there anyway, and it would only be used by the Soho media circuit for crap telly, so why not let the people use it?
May 23, 2008 at 6:05 pm #1172417
Dom_sufc
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General Lighting wrote:

the fibre optic is there anyway, and it would only be used by the Soho media circuit for crap telly, so why not let the people use it?

Ah right I thought It was built especially for this. I imagined a huge fibreoptic cable being layed through the ocean bed soley for this.

Now Ive thought about It I get it now hehe.
May 23, 2008 at 6:12 pm #1172411
Digital-A
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top stuff 🙂

… the wonders of technology
May 23, 2008 at 6:36 pm #1172410
globalloon
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near sennen in cornwall there’s an old stone hut with some tubes poking out the wall. the tubes were the original sub-atlantic communication lines. i’ve been there a few times and had a little shout down them but no-one ever answered back from noo yowk
May 24, 2008 at 12:46 am #1172413
JonnyQuest
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i really should look up once in a while
May 24, 2008 at 9:15 am #1172414
DaftFader
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whats the point of that when you have web cams and video chat O.o …. that technology is like ages old … it’s presented like its a new thing .. the internet is run of fiber opticks @ its back bone and can transfere loads of data not just images … the only diferance is that the images are transfered into data b4 being sent trough the net …:you_crazy ..

[ERDIT]just read every one elses posts ignore what i wroght lol
May 24, 2008 at 3:17 pm #1172415
lilmstrixta
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thats kinda cool very imaganative i think anyway
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