Thursday, May 31, 2018

The World Made Small Though Conduit And Cable Plowing

By Daniel Graham


The planet, by and large, was not made for human habitation. There are very few places in the natural world that a human being can survive for too long. In fact, compared to other animals, a human being is weak and fragile. Most other animals of comparative size are stronger, much stronger than a person could ever hope to be even with a steady stream of weight lifting and anabolic steroids. Animals that are smaller are either faster or have some sort of gimmick that means that they are still able to kill a fully grown person.. But no other animal is as prevalent across the globe as man. Sure, some animals may have greater population numbers overall, but none occupy as diverse a range of ecosystems as human beings. This is because for all the gifts nature has given them, it left out two very important things, the ability to innovate and the resolve to make that innovation into a real, tangible thing. No other creature is as innovative or as ruthlessly resolved as mankind. Not one other species, not a single other descendant from that one fish brave enough to crawl out of the primordial waters, has tamed the world the same way humanity has. And it tamed the world by connecting it, sometimes via conduit and cable plowing.

Now, plowing involves moving right through something. In this method, a plow is attached to a vehicle. The vehicle then charges forward and tears through the earth. Then wires are placed into the resulting trench, connected to appropriate ports, secured and sealed, and then the trench is filled in as to prevent people from falling inside.

Now, plowing as a method is preferred because it is a fast method of getting cables in the ground. There is another method known as trenching, which does have its own advantages. But the plowing technique still has the advantage in terms of speed.

Part of the innovation that human society has wrought on the world is the comfort. Those comforts, like running water, electricity and the more recent necessity that is the internet, all have to be physically delivered to a home, though the last one might be changing in the near future. Since most people refuse to go without such comforts, the means to deliver them will be necessary.

The alternatives to the plow method are overhead wires and poles. The detriment to such an alternative is that they tend to go down relatively easily in inclement weather. Once those wires are down, they can become a safety concern for anyone on the street. Lastly, overhead wires are unseemly to look at and having the wires hidden makes for a cleaner, or at least cleaner looking, street overall.

The main benefit of laying pipes and wires underground is the safety aspect. Overhead wires can become entangled in each other, which can impede performance, and also break. Overhead wires that hand loose can cause injuries.

The main tool used is the plough, a vehicle with a sort of blade at the end to displace the earth. The second main tool is another vehicle to hold the cables. The second vehicle follows the first vehicle and lays down what needs to be laid down as it goes.

The places that would benefit most from underground conduits and cables are literally any street in the world. At no point are overhead wires ever better. Residential streets are safer and neater for subterranean wiring and piping, and urban streets need them even more because of urban density.

Man has made the world small. It has been brought into homes. The inhospitable world has been brought to heel.




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