Raising a Ladder to the Moon, Under the Sea

Am I the only one who was disappointed that this wasn&#x27;t an article about a plan to <i>actually</i> raise a ladder to the moon?

No thread on submarine cables is complete without a link to Neal Stephensons classic &quot;Mother Earth Mother Board&quot; article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;12&#x2F;ffglass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;12&#x2F;ffglass&#x2F;</a>

160Tbps on 8 fiber pairs is impressive. I wonder when we will get residential Tbit fiber, it should not be that far long into the future. Just think of the applications. In comparison a display cable &quot;only&quot; carriage a few Gbit of data per second.

(2017)

Here&#x27;s an overview of all submarine cables: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.submarinecablemap.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.submarinecablemap.com&#x2F;</a>

&gt; ... establishes a faster and stronger telecommunications link not only to Europe, but to the next billion internet users that will come from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.<p>I hate corporate PR so much for things like this. What&#x27;s the point of talking about Asia? Data to&#x2F;from Asia goes mostly trough the Pacific Ocean, not through Spain.

Why it goes up to Bilbao instead of only to Galicia or Portugal? That will be shorter.

I think we&#x27;ll some form of power link going from UK -&gt; US during our lifetime, maybe via Iceland&#x2F;Greenland so we can utilise the excess geothermal energy from Iceland.

Old article...please add (2017) to title<p>&gt;Today, September 22, 2017, ...

Yet spain still lags behind most other countries in terms of internet connection speeds.

Why didn&#x27;t they explain the need for peanut butter? Food supplies for the crew?