RC Submarine Lays Fiber Through Sewers In Italy 122
Francesco Fondi writes "An Italian Company is using RC scale model submarines to lay fiber through Milan's sewage system. The RC submarine used is the Neptune SB-1, produced by Taiwanese company Thunder Tiger. It costs ca $600 in US hobby shops." In Italian, but the pictures speak for themselves.
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Meanwhile, after the french heard of the situation, the french army secured rubber padding to their weapons so they will retain their value if dropped in an attempt to surrender.
No longer will they have to run the disclaimer in the ad for surplus guns for sale, "never been fired but dropped at least once".
Re:In other news (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CzgSAJ5v_8 [youtube.com]
Looooooooooooooonnggg
No Shit? (Score:5, Funny)
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Not this shit again.
http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html [google.com]
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This is once where their jobs will be easier if I just don't give a shit.
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Shitty Internet Connection (TM)
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Customer: My internet is backed up!
CSR: Have you tried Imodium?
Customer: My internet is intermittent.
CSR: You're out of balance upstream/downstream. Now that you have fiber in your sewer, you need more fiber in your diet.
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If a shit submarine hits a fan your in much deeper shit than you should be to start with.
Though does morpheous's hovercraft count as a shit traveling submarine?
Does this remind anyone of Google TiSP? (Score:2)
I think the Italians might ask Google about what they learned when they did it:
http://www.google.com/tisp/ [google.com]
I especially like this one:
http://www.google.com/tisp/images/tisp_diagram.gif [google.com]
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Guerilla Net (Score:2, Interesting)
I always thought that would be a good way to construct a community driven "Guerilla Net", that flouted the laws that seek to control our communications systems.
The other idea was to build solar powered WiFi meshing routers and attach strong magnets to them. A radio controlled helicopter would then be used to attach them to inaccessible places on high metallic structures, where they would be very difficult to remove.
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But otherwise I really like that idea. Maybe you could so some kind of low power repeater type router, designed specifically for this application.
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10 watts is "hard to do?"
A 10 watt solar panel is about 1 square foot.
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If the shit got thick enough to warrent a guerilla network of this complexity then I'd say you should be happy enough with something that only works during the day, it'd surely be an improvement.
Sewers? (Score:1)
There was an article about this sort of thing in Raleigh the other day.
Here's the link:
http://news14.com/Default.aspx?ArID=611427 [news14.com]
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Come on it's just laying cable in the sewers. (Score:3, Funny)
You'll probably (Score:5, Funny)
Load of Crap... (Score:2, Funny)
A sewer submarine? That's a load of crap...
An Italian Italian company? (Score:2)
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Their pizzas are spherical.
Fiber in the sewer systems? (Score:4, Funny)
Of course, the other way to get more fibre in the system bran muffins.
RC submarine (Score:1, Offtopic)
understandable (Score:5, Interesting)
This makes sense, I have been using RC 4wheel drive cars to run cable under craw spaces and in some cases, across long stretches of drop ceilings for a couple of years now. The great thing is that I can deduct toys from my taxes.
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This makes sense, I have been using RC 4wheel drive cars to run cable under craw spaces and in some cases, across long stretches of drop ceilings for a couple of years now. The great thing is that I can deduct toys from my taxes.
This makes sense, I have been using "RC 4wheel drive cars" as a simple search string for auditing tax returns for years now.
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How is it not a valid expense. He's using it the way he claims on his taxes, he's just ALSO playing with it. They make little specialist RC robots to do this, those are way more expensive. For a small shop this a pretty good option.
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Re:understandable (Score:4, Informative)
Guys have been doing this for ages, it doesn't take much pull for straight runs. You can get pretty cheap R/C tanks at Radio Shack pretty often, which are quite good for this particular purpose in terms of price:performance ratio. The simple truth though is that today's R/C cars are fucking pissed off. I've got a rally car (saloon with the suspension raised) that makes 28 MPH. The Six-C NiCD pack regularly gets hotter than you want to hold. Actually, as an AWD car with low CG but high clearance and limited slip diffs, it might be an idea cable puller :)
You can't navigate if you can't see, there are numerous tiny video transmitters which will run off of ~6V, commonly available inside R/C cars or trivial to add with a 4AA pack. But if you can see the thing you can just tape a Mag-Lite to it.
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Most of the cars can handle the drag on one or two cables until you start around corners. Mounting a spool of nylon string to the rear of it will allow you to pull the cables through after you run a path.
As for as navigating, usually you can get a visual on it. The visual however may be dropping a camera down a hole, or attaching one to the car itself. You can find RC cars with live feed cams already attached [thefind.com] if your not worried about quality. I actually took on of them apart and attached the camera and tra
Great.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Yes, but the connection is useless for remote administration: they only get a half shell.
Looks like it's slashdotted already... (Score:1)
Surely that should have been "lays cable"? (Score:2, Funny)
In soviet Italy... (Score:5, Funny)
In soviet Italy, the crap is full of internet.
Not sure that I agree with you (Score:2)
Slashdotted (Score:5, Informative)
If only the pictures would load, it seems to be slashdotted.
Google cache link: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:phzPunjGi58J:www.hobbymedia.it/14893/sottomarino-radiocomandato+http://www.hobbymedia.it/14893/sottomarino-radiocomandato&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a [209.85.229.132]
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I'm sure there's going to be a lot of band jokes coming about "blocked tubes" and the like.
I think the word you're looking for... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of band jokes coming about "blocked tubes" and the like.
Instead of traffic congestion, we will have traffic constipation.
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Italians are sick people. The girl making out with an RC car is... interesting.
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LOL. Which one? There were two on the page.
Umm... (Score:1, Redundant)
That's going to give a really shitty connection.
Mirror? (Score:2)
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It pinches it off.
Italian (Score:2)
Yeah the pictures are probably doing a lot of hand waving and gesticulating.
And right now they're apparently screaming about "slashdot" while doing so.
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Translation (Score:5, Informative)
Quick translation...
** Neptune, the radio-controlled submarine from Sabattinicars, lays ADSL cables in sewers
The July issue of Focus magazine contains an interesting piece on the use of Thunder TigerNeptune submarine (distributed in Italy by SabattiniCars) to lay ADSL cables through the sewage network. Cristoforo Massari, a physicist employed by the council of Milan, remarks that this system makes it possible to reach any building or house without any excavating effort, saving a lot of money. And to think that someone still argues that modelmaking is a useless hobby! [sic]
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The site appears to be down... is Slashdot evolving into a DDOS trigger?
you must be new here
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I'd put it in a container with water for a few hours or so... Add in a bit disinfectant, perhaps.
The thing is submersible, after all ;-)
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Also, simply avoid licking it.
Please tag this story "it" (Score:4, Funny)
Please tag this story "it", so it's easier to find other stories about Italy later.
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You joke, but think how much money would Italy make if only they'd remove restrictions for their TLD registrations... apart from obvious IT companies, there would be a rush for sentences, like "justfix.it" or "letsprint.it" etc...
But no, we are italllians, we don't need no money, we have the sun! pizza! gangsters! Ferrari! mandolins! etc etc ... so to buy a .it you need to live/have a company in Italy.
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So create a company that buys .it domains and rents them out to foreign companies...
Or just say fuck.it and move on...
5M depth and 2km/h, says the spec (Score:3, Funny)
Cant load it (Score:1)
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NOT A TOY! (Score:2, Informative)
Laying Cables... (Score:1, Informative)
Shouldn't that read "RC Submarine Lays Cable Through Sewers In Italy?".
Movie sequel idea (Score:2)
RC Sub Promo Video (Score:2, Informative)
Terminator 5: The Elimination (Score:2)
A whole generation of new "It Came From The Sewer" urban legends is spawning in the dark even as we speak.
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Cable repair guy (Score:4, Funny)
It's all fun and games until the cable breaks and someone has to swim in there and fix it.
poor little Italian hobby company webserver (Score:4, Funny)
didn't stand a chance against a slashdotting...
Not all that uncommon to us RC (Score:2, Interesting)
What surprises me is that the sub can negotiate the sewer with all that shit in there. You would think the prop would have issues.
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In Italian? (Score:2)
It says "Database Error" - that's English!
Pictures speak for themselves (Score:1)
Obviously, since many of the pictures (on the rest of the page) contain pretty girls :)
Rotting fiber? (Score:3, Interesting)
How do they keep the fiber from rotting? Sewers contain all sorts of household chemicals, in addition to biological waste.
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Other Toilet ISPs (Score:5, Informative)
Blue Men there first (Score:2)
similar idea (Score:3, Insightful)
The ferret pulled string through the pipes and that was used to pull rope which then was used to pull the cables through. I have heard that the same trick was used in the 1800's for telegraph cables.
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Yes, this my first thought too when I saw this article.
More referenced in Wikipedia: "Event organizers in London used ferrets to run TV and sound cables for both the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer, and for the 'Party in the Park' concert held in Greenwich Park on Millennium Eve. One ferret, Freddie, was even registered as an electrician's assistant with the New Zealand Electrical Workers Union."
You don't really need to train them, they naturally are burrowing animals, many owners
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Early on in my construction career we used to constantly see electricians using this method to run lines.
They tie a piece of plastic bag on the end of a piece of string and stand on the other end with a vaccum, the plastic bag acts like a parachute and pulls it all the way through the piping in a matter of seconds.
Anyways this is done all of America and I even saw something on 'This Old House' when they had to do it in old sewer line.
The one I liked is where they inserted this tube of epoxy like material; o
The submarine (Score:2)
http://www.tiger.com.tw/product/5220-K.html [tiger.com.tw]
Radio Controlled Submarine (Score:1)
Max 5 meters depth quoted (Score:3, Informative)
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Another mafia construction scandal looming ... (Score:1)
All those charges for piping and nothing being there underground at all.
And now, the jig will be up for them when the robot discovers there are no sewers there!
One thing I've wondered about fiber-in-sewer (Score:2)
What happens when you need to call Roto-Rooter?
Same idea - more expensive solution in the UK.... (Score:1)
Pictures DO speak for themselves (Score:1)
sub*marine* is a misnomer (Score:2)
obligatory Dilbert (Score:1)
2003/09/08 [dilbert.com]