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Yet the country put people on the Moon, built that highway system that spans edge to edge, has telephone services across it, places cables across oceans, built oil pipelines running crazy lengths, among numerous other ridiculously complex engineering projects.

But "bury big tubes with fiber optic cables in them" is somehow too complicated of an engineering task?

The reality is we could get it done, there's just no political will cause the status quo benefits the entrenched players.

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The engineering is not complicated, but it involves fights for right of way and obstructionist land owners and municipalities who will fight against it.

This is what's happening in Mountain View, home of Google. We don't have Google Fiber because of local obstructionism.

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Agreed. I was being facetious by suggesting the engineering was complicated.

And by "entrenched players", I meant anyone that has a horse in the race, not just ISPs.