For nostalgia they should have towers capable of their old phones.
Remember this nokia ringtone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk4KK-gh0FM
Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
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Re: Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
#112That’s funny. Can’t even get LTE in the countryside but sure, build a network on the moon
Well, the same argument can be made for lots of things. As in, why not provide poor kids with better school lunches when we've spent $100B to build the space station?
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Actually, my parents have a home in Townsend near the Smokeys and a huge tower stuck up from one of the highest peaks for years, making evveryone mad. So they turned it into a "tree" and it looks even more ridiculous. But the coverage in the area is much improved.
Yeah, I think the tree camouflage does just make it worse sometimes and they should just stick with painting it a muted grey/blue so it kind of blends with the sky.
Or let local artists "adopt" and paint the cell towers. In my town, artists paint unique murals and designs on the ugly public utility boxes on street corners. Though cell towers don't have many flat surfaces to paint..
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it's going to look more obvious at different times of the year. Especially in the fall and winter.
In winter it'll be covered in snow? Should blend in better then
That's probably not going to be the case for most of the time in Southern England.
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I like it, but +66 is Thailand already. Maybe Thailand could be reassigned. Like when Mexico dropped out of +1 to become +52. Or maybe instead of +, we dial & to get off-planet.
You're suggesting an entire country of millions of people change their phone numbers because America decides that it wants to create a new international area code which happens to match the word "moon" in English?
Seems like a completely sensible option to me. What objections do you have?
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#116Is anyone aware of a date/time representation system that would work universally (including extraterrestrial places)? I just have been curious about this question for long. Sure, we could keep an earth referential on a moon base, but then what about Mars? As a software developer it is already difficult to always get dates/times properly with timezones, now imagine places which does not have 24 hours per day or the sa…
UT0 is the basis for other times derived from motion of stars or extragalactic radio sources.
On the Moon and Earth you can just use UTC like ISS does.
Re: Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
#117Is anyone aware of a date/time representation system that would work universally (including extraterrestrial places)? I just have been curious about this question for long. Sure, we could keep an earth referential on a moon base, but then what about Mars? As a software developer it is already difficult to always get dates/times properly with timezones, now imagine places which does not have 24 hours per day or the sa…
UTC works just fine, or TAI if you don't want to deal with leap seconds. (UTC is international atomic time (TAI) offset by leap seconds to keep in sync with earth's rotation)
Once you get into relativistic effects you need something better, but for practical purposes UTC and TAI are just fine for the foreseeable future. The days just become a meaningless abstract concept.
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#118Microsoft and allies seem to be winning "hearts and minds" in the DoD and related sectors of US. https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-nokia-reunite-new-al...
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Re: Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, my parents have a home in Townsend near the Smokeys and a huge tower stuck up from one of the highest peaks for years, making evveryone mad. So they turned it into a "tree" and it looks even more ridiculous. But the coverage in the area is much improved.
Yeah, I think the tree camouflage does just make it worse sometimes and they should just stick with painting it a muted grey/blue so it kind of blends with the sky.
Theme parks paint the exteriors of buildings housing large rides and theaters in "go-away gray" or "go-away green" so that the public generally doesn't notice them.
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#120Does this mean the ITU is going to assign the moon a country code? I vote for +6666 (MOON). Who decides what parts of the moon get what area codes? Imagine how long it will take to get Orange to instal a landline in a crater!
Suggestion: doubling the international call prefix to 'dial out' of Earth's networks and followed by a new code to dial into the Moon's.