Canada has some undersea cables along Hudson's Bay. This is an extremely remote area with an incredibly low population... what is the purpose of these cables

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• Leviathan@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Connecting tiny, remote populations to the rest of the world, perchance? That sounds like a good enough use of my tax dollars on its face.

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• PragmaticOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Low pop or not people still need to be able to communicate and that includes sea vessels and aircraft.

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• A_A@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Many comments in here gave ample, good and serious answers that overlooked completely the great potential for silly jokes.

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  • GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You mean like “Look it gets very cold, and there’s a lot of snow for three quarters of the year, and a girl’s got to put herself through college one way or another.”

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    • A_A@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      More like : “Hudson’s Bay is already very wide so pulling cables across it is necessary to prevent it to get even wider.”
      (the title doesn’t say if those are steel cables and asks their purpose)

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• JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would almost guarantee that they’re SURTASS cables

  Undersea hydrophones for tracking submarines.

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  • PragmaticOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh that’s a good shout. Never thought about that.

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    • JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The only reason I thought about it was because I was a SONAR tech in the Navy and had friends in IUSS and SURTASS. Long-range passive SONAR like that is fascinating.

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It looks like that peninsula is a national park with very rugged terrain, and that route might be the only way to get the towns connected at all.

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• A_norny_mousse@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cheaper than poles?

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  • one_old_coder@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Obviously, they want money and pierogi all the time.

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• eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because Internet, dumbass

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  • Karmanopoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The cables are isolated from the rest of the world

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    • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Clearly not

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