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The one in Georgia is pronounced Al-binny. Sometimes Awwl-binn-eeh.

>The large recording device was designed to detach if the cable was raised for repair.

Clever!

It sounds like you're right. Also, that's the book I read way back then! Neat, I'll have to pick it up again.

Unrelated but fun story about antagonists and undersea cables that I saw in some Cold War history book in college.

The CIA had cooked up a bonkers covert mission to send a submarine with an airlock right into the soviets’ top submarine harbor. There, divers were to place a tap an underwater data cable that fed the nearby submarine base—a crown jewel of Soviet sub deployment intel.

The CIA knew the cable passed through the harbor somewhere. But where?

To search the entire harbor for a tiny cable would have taken too long. The mission planners were stuck on this problem until one day one of the CIA planners is out on his personal boat. He sees a sign that says “WARNING: Undersea Cable” and has a moment of clarity.

They brought a translator, popped up the periscope in the Soviet harbor, and spotted an equivalent sign which they used to carry out the mission successfully.

For extra credit they had to go back to exfiltrate the data if my memory serves.

Documented testimony of flagrant disregard for interstate law might have something to do with it.

If one of the many jurisdictions passed through has camera footage with the car and face uniquely identified, that’s a lot of legal exposure.

You are replying to OP who wrote the article. I might have missed it but I don’t think they described any ongoing legal action against this particular copycat.

Friction stir welding is popular in rocketry because it is very controllable.

This twitter reply sums it up well:

“SUCCESS! We now now max pressure the tank can hold and the damage a rupture might do.”

Why not both?

Where I’m from in southern USA, there are 65mph state highways with 4 way traffic light intersections. There is always a “stop light ahead” sign, and the rule is simple: if you are traveling the speed limit and you pass the “stop light ahead” sign before the light starts to change, you will clear the yellow phase.