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photo: transatlantic cables coming ashore

  • From: Scott Francis
  • Date: Fri Feb 08 13:54:39 2008
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Ran across this at Wired today, and it seemed apropos to recent events:
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/01/gallery_simon?slide=10&slideView=10

I particularly liked the photographer's observation: "There's a humor
because the cables are so important, yet they look so unguarded and
unimportant," Simon said.

they probably look even more unguarded and unimportant on the seafloor ...
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