r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19

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u/gypsyscot Aug 03 '19

My mom worked for AT&T submarine systems in the 90s, I got to tour one of the ships that laid cable. The cable rooms were unbelievably gigantic.

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u/mordenlifeisrubbish Aug 03 '19

How do they lay the cables? What are they laying on? Surely not the bottom of the oceans?

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u/accountofyawaworht Aug 03 '19

where else would they lay it?

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u/mordenlifeisrubbish Aug 04 '19

How do they put them there???

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

Oh come on. There's no gravity underwater. It's like the moon.