Made me livin in the fiber optic mines. Mine all day, mine all night in those fiber mines.
Gotta crack open the sidewalk
Signs like that wouldn’t be necessary if we weren’t living in a hypercapitalist dystopia.
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Damn, and here I was thinking we left all of the garbage like this comment and poster back on Reddit.
Guess we really can’t have shit in Detroit
You can’t make an offensive joke without pissing a bunch of Ned Flanders along the way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was living in a world where I wasn’t aware that it’s a thing to steal cables. Thanks. But aren’t fiber optic more expensive?
Probably, but I don’t think you can easily melt it down and sell the raw materials like you can with metals… Just a hunch
Fiber optic cables are very much not recyclable, at least with the current recycling technologies.
Generally when I hear people discussing fiber the big costs is actually running the cables and terminating and splicing the ends, the actual cable itself is relatively inexpensive from my understanding.
But with regard to stealing cable, you really can’t do much with a fiber cable on the secondary market besides using it for fiber, and you also would probably need to re-terminate it that can be very costly. Compared to copper or other type of metal cables that can be sold very easily for scrap metal. That can be melted down and made into something else or just reused as cable.
No, Fiber cables are really cheap. They are basically just glass with some reflective coat.
It is just that the connectors and more importantly the work of attaching those connectors to the cable that makes them expensive. They need to be welded in a dust-free environment, and require lots of skill to get right.
