Letters / Not a good week for cables
Why did the Orca eat the subsea cable? Because they were told they needed more fibre in their diet.
Not a good week for cables; first the wind farm found problems in theirs and then Shetland was cut off from the outside world. Unless you had a landline or carrier pigeons.
It makes you realise how reliant on modern technology we have become, even peerie ol’ Shetland. It has been reported that ‘shipping vessels’ were likely to blame. Were they Russian ‘shipping vessels’ by any chance?
Would an independent Scotland have its own subsea cables or satellite network? Could Shetland Charitable Trust or another local organisation invest in satellite resilience for Shetland? We are going to have a spaceport in Unst soon, so I’m sure they could arrange a discount.
The Internet as we know it today was first developed by the US military in the 1960s to provide resilience in the event of a nuclear war. That threat has again been prominent recently.
What plans are there for the survival of Shetland in the event of Armageddon? (Or hungry Orca)
Ian Simmins
Ollaberry
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