[BC] BPL flaws

[Bill Sepmeier]

>Around here there are D.C. power supplies connected to gas lines.  I 
>believe
>they counteract the tendency for the metal in the pipes to corrode.  ISTR
>the plan to use gas pipes for internet access involves running optical 
>fiber
>inside the plumbing.  It leads one to wonder if the same could be done with
>sewer pipes.

LOL!  I'm reminded of a funny book about one woman's experiences in 1930's 
radio called "Of Mics And Men" - in which she told how her station's chief 
engineer disliked using AT&T so much that he'd flush a tennis ball with a 
string tied securely on it  into the sewer line and then run down the street 
to fish it out at a local hotel that wanted to do live remotes once a 
week.... the string, of course, would pull the requsite wire through....

IIRC, the same engineer once used the railroad tracks to do remotes from a 
nearby town, but of course things didn't work so well once the train came... 
  :-)

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