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“Must be difficult to dig with a saw”
“LOL, not surprised.
When I served in Afghanistan, some genius engineer back in the States had an idea to detect IED emplacement by burying fiber optic cables along all the roads, with some sensors that would detect seismic activity and transmit the signal up the fiber optic to tell us where someone was digging.
They tried to sell the idea to us. We had to explain: “Look, this is a poor country. Everything that’s not tied down gets picked up or stolen and repurposed. Afghans pick up our scrap barbed wire, straighten it, and resell it. If you go down a road one day burying fiber optic cable, the next night some Afghan is going to come in behind you, dig up the cable, cut it into pieces, and sell it.”
Idea never came up again.”
“A network engineer is deserted on an island after a plane crash. He looks in his backpack and finds a granola bar and piece of fiber optic cable. He laughs to himself, buries the fiber and eats the granola bar. 24hrs later a backhoe arrives and digs up the fiber”