Comment by patapong
1 day ago
How do we know that the whales have not been implicated without these sensors? Perhaps they will reveal that whales were the issue all along.
1 day ago
How do we know that the whales have not been implicated without these sensors? Perhaps they will reveal that whales were the issue all along.
The whales already signed an international treaty on this, and it's really unlikely they are going to violate their treaty obligations by destroying fiber optic cables.
Also, you know, whales not having sharp teeth and the ability to chew small breaks into cables that look remarkably like intentionally dragging boat anchors across them and all that.
The idea of a sabotage-whale armed with torpedoes reminds me of the book Starter Villain by John Scalzi. (It's... relatively zany.)