Raising a Ladder to the Moon, Under the Sea
https://blogs.microsoft.com/today-in-tech/raising-a-ladder-to-the-moon-under-the-sea/ [blogs.microsoft.com]
2019-05-10 15:20
It took more than five months for engineers and the crew aboard the CS Dependable to load and lay Marea along the seabed, which in spots plunges to depths of more than 17,000 feet. A daunting feat today, but downright unthinkable 150 years ago when American financier Cyrus Field first set out to connect the New World with the old via an undersea wire. News stories at the time deemed his ambitious attempts “only one degree, in the scale of absurdity, below that of raising a ladder to the moon.”
source: HN