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Everything on the internet feels instantaneous. You won’t think twice whether you’re listening to an Indicator episode in Europe, streaming a surfing video from Tahiti, or watching an adorable panda live cam from China.
But how exactly does the internet get from there to here? Did the panda video bounce off a satellite in space? As it turns out, the answer is much more analog. Reporter Robert Smith joins us for a different kind of Indicator episode: a virtual tour of the underwater data cables that connect the world.
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