It just seems self evident that space would be a better way to virtually wire the internet than our current method of running really long cables slash shark buffets along the ocean floor.
Internet cable ocean floor.
On july 29 1858 two steam powered battleships met in the middle of the atlantic ocean.
There they connected two ends of a 4 000 kilometer 2 500 mile long 1 5 centimeter 0 6 inch wide cable.
Cables lying on the seafloor bring the internet to the world.
A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea.
The internet consists of tiny bits of code that move around the world traveling along wires as thin as a strand of hair strung across the ocean floor.