Monkeys Can't Stop Eating India's Delicious Fiber Optic Cables
Right now, Indias in the middle of launching a massive, $18 billion plan to finally bring the countrys shoddy internet up to speed. Theres just one little problem: Adorable monkeys just cant stop eating its delicious, delicious data cables.
Specifically, its the 3,000 year-old holy city of Varanasi thats having the hardest time getting an internet overhaul, since its many temples are home to hoards of (presumably) hungry, tech-hating macaque monkeys. And since the monkeys are seen as sacred, chasing them away is apparently out of the question. As a communications engineer for the project told Reuters :
We cannot move the temples from here. We cannot modify anything here, everything is built up. The monkeys, they destroy all the wires and eat all the wires.
The team even had to replace some of the wires less than two-months after they were installed because those goddamn monkeys couldnt help themselves.
While the engineers are currently looking for alternative, prospects are bleak. According to Reuters , The city of over 2 million people is impossibly crowded and laying underground cable is out of the question.
Another option? Stop making such delicious cables.
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Monkeys Can't Stop Eating India's Delicious Fiber Optic Cables
by Ashley Feinberg , Gizmodo
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"Monkeys chewing on a means of communication"
Somehow... That seems very appropriate for NT's Front Page.
Making the cables banana flavored was not a good idea ... in retrospect .
It is a weird notion, isn't it?
WHY do they find it so tasty??
Can't the brilliant engineers find some disgusting goop to coat the cables?
Even if the monkeys could be repelled there are still rats & other rodents ...
In the monkey's defense, they really do taste good. They come is different flavors depending on the color!
I am not at all sure that I want to know how you obtained this information......
Lots of late nights working with and fixing computers.
... and... ... snacking on cables? ??
Gotta eat something when midnight chow has closed before you could get to it...
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