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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2008-02-07 01:12 am

So -- kraken or espionage?

In the past week four of the undersea cables that handle Internet voice and email have been cut or shut down. The mainstream media had not caught on as of boingboing.net today. What's your guess? Sabotage so a few somebodies can get taps into the cable? The kraken got tired of the reverb on the ocean floor? Earthquake?

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/05/who-cut-the-cheese-i.html

[identity profile] dancinghorse.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
Supposedly it was a ship that tried to drop anchor in bad weather, and caught the cables and ripped them loose.

But I like the kraken better.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
But I like the kraken better.

After that 40+ foot octopus/squid was found on shore a couple years ago, I also think the kraken's a better story.... (ominous music)

[identity profile] martianmooncrab.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
they know better than to lay cable near Innsmouth

[identity profile] lindajdunn.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
After the third, we decided a fourth would mean sabotage.

I'm voting for sabotage.
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[personal profile] lagilman 2008-02-07 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Kraken seems to me to be the least disturbing of the possibilities...

[identity profile] bevhale.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I like the kraken better, too. Sometimes the truth is just boring.

[identity profile] 6-penny.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that the Sperm whales have finally had enough!

[identity profile] jacardie.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the kraken theory is more interesting, too. :)

[identity profile] clouds-loom.livejournal.com 2008-02-08 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
R votes for the Cloverfield monster... But we're betting earthquake.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2008-02-08 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
I'm finding five a little hard to swallow. Probably sabotage. **Sigh**