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Norwegian Company Pitches 2,800-Mile Undersea Cable Linking Canada and Europe to Bypass the US (www.gadgetreview.com)

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Bulk Infrastructure proposes a 6,500-kilometer Norway-to-Montreal cable bypassing U.S. territory entirely.
Costs exceed $620 million, with financing, customers, and route surveys still unresolved.
Routing around U.S. territory does not guarantee independence from American networks downstream.

Norwegian infrastructure company Bulk Infrastructure is proposing a direct fiber cable from Norway to Canada, routed around the United States entirely. The project, named Leif Erikson, remains a proposal, not a construction announcement.

Canada currently has relatively few direct international cable options that avoid U.S. routing, a structural gap the project is designed to address. That context, combined with growing government interest in infrastructure resilience, gives the proposal its strategic weight.

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[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 10 points 1 day ago

The undersea cables are all very vulnerable to hostile nation states. You all need satellites as well, although they are deploying satellite killers in orbit as we speak, the russians and the us, not sure what china is doing.

[-] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Basically any country with an air force and a ballistic missile program has satellite killers.

China has demonstrated the ability to shoot down satellites using a fighter loaded with medium range missiles.

[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 4 points 1 day ago

China has also targeted our satellites with lasers, in a not so subtle hint that they could hit them with missiles the article said, 15 some years back.

We are going to be trapped on earth if we start satellite wars, as the space junk will make launching very dicey. Even a piece of satellite the size of a grain of rice can destroy a satellite because of the speeds involved, as I understand it.

[-] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Tbh I expect us to kessler ourselves in my lifetime.

Might actually be the thing that makes everyone care about climate change

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

The point is to protect comms during times of peace, not war.

[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We've (excluding the US,) been at peace for some time, and cables are getting cut left and right. Not even all recently, even 15 years back there were some suspicious ones out by Asia, forget the details, but Fox was up in arms about it.

Edit: What should be done, is to mass produce some gear to hook onto the cables or near them, to spy out sabotage attempts and give early warnings. Then scramble the warplanes.

Or even an electrical line, with flashpoints where if a diver or submarine drone gets near, they can send electricity through the water to incapacitate the threat.

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