Crosswinds spin eight rotors producing electricity that sent back to the ground through a tether and its carbon fiber frame makes the kite extremely lightweight.

逆风飞翔时8个转子旋转发电，由缆线传回地面，碳纤维结构使得飞行器质地非常轻巧。

It was just sitting there, with the wires that run overhead.

它就停在那，电缆线高挂在上面。

I think our cable run at the moment is about 60 metres.

我们现在已经架设了大约 60 米长的缆线。

It's hard to wrap my head around the idea that we're looking at, you know, with 1,000 fibers, we're looking at 1,000 galaxies, and it's...I have a hard time wrapping my head around that the universe is that big.

真是难以置信，这儿的缆线有 1000 个，要知道，这代表着 1000 个星系，我已经感到迷失了，宇宙到底有多大。

He raised money from a wide network of investors, including the British and American governments, which also provided the necessary ships for laying the cable in exchange for top priority communication rights on the future telegraph line.

他通过包括英美政府在内广泛的交际网络筹款。两国提供安装缆线所需的船只作为，换取来电话线路的最优先使用权。

And because this tension and the force of gravity would vary at different points, its strength and thickness would need to vary as well.

而因为缆线各点所受的拉力和重力都不同，它的强和粗细也必须随之改变。

For $35, you get a short power cable and this strap which has space for a battery pack.

只要花35美元，你就可以得到一根短电缆线和这条带子，它有足够的空间放一个电池组。

But the main problem lies in the cable itself.

但主要的问题是缆线。

Instead of brave entrepreneurs, now most new cables are being laid by the tech giants, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, which collectively own or lease more than half of the undersea bandwidth.

除了部分无畏的企业家，现在的新缆线主要由亚马逊、脸书、谷歌和微软等技术巨头安装，而这些企业共同拥有或出租一半以上的海底带宽。

To capture their movements in their rooftop world, they need to run a cable between buildings and fly a camera along it.

为了拍摄它们在屋顶上活动的画面，他们需要在房屋之间搭一条缆线，让摄影机穿行拍摄。

Field also recruited some of the top engineers and scientists of his time to develop a cable durable enough to carry a signal thousands of miles across the ocean floor.

菲尔德招募到一些顶尖的工师与科学家来研发耐用的缆线，以期在相隔数千米的两地传讯。

In addition to supporting a massive amount of weight, the cable's material would have to be strong enough to withstand the counterweight's pull.

为了支撑这么庞大的重量，缆线的材质必须够坚固，才能承受配重的拉力。

And there are a lot of them, stretching close to 750,000 miles in total, and more cable was laid in 2018 than any year in almost two decades.

且光缆数量众多，总长将近七十五万英里。2018 年新装缆线的长超过了以往二十年中的任何一年。

It allowed messages to be sent across wires as electrical pulses which could be translated into letters and words.

信息因此能以电脉冲形式通过缆线传送，而后被转译为文字。

And although it seems that we live in a mostly wireless world, undersea cable still carry 99% of data traffic that crosses the oceans.

虽说今人看似活在主要是无线传输的世界中，但海底缆线仍承担着全世界 99% 的跨洋数据传输任务。

What if the line could be extended all the way to Ireland, and then unto London which at the time was the hub of the global economy?

如果将缆线延伸至爱尔兰，然后直达当时世界经济的中心——伦敦，会如何呢？

Instead of cables and strings, they're brought to life using controllers.

而不是使用缆线和细绳，它们是通过控制器被赋予生命的。

Because of this, hundreds of these cable wires had to be replaced to make sure they were strong enough to hold up the bridge.

因此，不得不更换数百根电缆线， 以确保它们足够坚固来支撑大桥。

Although the first cable only functioned for a few months before going dead, it proved that a link was indeed possible.

虽然第一批缆线仅用了数月便损坏了，但也证明两地互联确实可行。

I know. They cut the hard line.

我已经查明 他们切入了我们的设备缆线。