When can we send Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Elon Musk there so that they can chat with each other?
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
#192We'll have a cell network on the moon and still lack basic broadband access to many rural areas.
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#193Am I the only one wondering what the point of this is?
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Need to bring back some of those brownbag lunch & learn events, starting with "SPICE up your clocks"! Except people might not be comfortable sitting in the same room these days
Comfort won't be much of a factor since most NASA centers are completely work from home for non-mission-critical work for the indefinite future. Nonetheless, we do have a ton of these kinds of things going on all the time. The bigger problem is that NASA's culture is so meeting heavy that it's hard to justify these kinds of low importance events on my calendar.
> The bigger problem is that NASA's culture is so meeting heavy that it's hard to justify these kinds of low importance events on my calendar.
Not sure if you are speaking from experience, but if that is the case, and this is true, then NASA as an organization seems to be a poor judge of what's important.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the full list is Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24 (1966-1976) Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 (1966-68) Apollo 11,12,14,15,16,17 (1969-72) Chang'e 3 and 4 (2013 + 2019)
The gaps in numbers are telling. And even Apollo which was by far and away the most successful had three astronauts killed on the launchpad and Apollo 13's lunar landing scrubbed.
The later Apollo missions weren't very popular with the public and were a potential political disaster for the president. Many people felt they were an enormous waste of money.
James Burke made a really great documentary mini-series in ~1980 where he interviewed a lot of the people involved in the Apollo missions. You can still find them on YouTube.
Re: Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
#196We'll have a cell network on the moon and still lack basic broadband access to many rural areas.
> We'll have a cell network on the moon and still lack basic broadband access to many rural areas.
Probably, but then the share of the population on the moon is nondecreasing, unlike that in the rural areas at issue.
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#197Lets see if this survives the election (it probably should)
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#198Is 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…
Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky has a bit where a "programmer archaeologist" (a term I just love) notes that deep in the thousand year old code running the starship the time is still counted in seconds since about a megasecond after the first lunar landing.
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#199Does 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!
Isn't the + a shorthand for the international part of the code, which changes per country. My country (oz) it's 0011 (and faxes were/are 0015).
So you don't need to create new country codes or boot countries into new prefixes, but just supply a new interplanetary prefix.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_call_p...
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
If anything, it should be luna and not moon.