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Originally Posted by cellinis
 then why does usa need cable in the sea? |
The cable stuff is a diversion, to put people off from the truth. It's a cover story.
What's really going on is expansion of US undersea hydrophones. The plan is to eventually wire the sea bottom at every significant place on the oceans so we can keep track of submarines, so they can all be killed immediately in the event of hostilities. That's really what it's about. Oh, and some small purpose of redundancy to back up the satellites during solar flares and the small chance they'd be taken out during a significant war, but only for redundancy.
The satellites and ELF transmissions work perfectly well for commo and are built to survive large EMP - they have to be built for that to function in space. But they won't survive a 50 kg slug hitting them at a relative speed of say, 10m per second, and that would be expected in a serious war against a serious player.
The geosynchronous satellites which are the backbone of general commercial communication are, of course sitting ducks for attack even from low-tech adversaries, easy to take out within hours of a decision being made; there is an array of nonsynchronous satellites that back up military commo - you need a steerable dish to to use them which is obviously more complex - and outside what Dish Network will put on your roof because they follow the same path as the surveillance satellites - in polar orbit. In fact, polar orbit was exactly what North Korea was aiming for in this last launch, and the suspicion is that it was a test of a satellite-killer capability - which is why the US called it "provocative". I don't think they are mentioning this stuff on Fox News.