The Internet Is Powered by a Great Big Fiber Optic Network Under the Sea – InsideHook
The residents of the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga probably have better things to do right now than streaming the latest box set. Earlier this month a catastrophic volcanic eruption, equivalent to six million tons of TNT and visible from space, disintegrated one of its thankfully uninhabited islands. It created a sonic boom loud enough to circle the planet twice, and sent an ash cloud 19 miles into the stratosphere.
