Sat phones

Wed Sep 23 03:32:59 UTC 1998

>Nope, get a sat-phone, some wood & wet blankets, semephore flags, a mirror and
>brush up on you Moris code. .. (after reading up on tsunami threats for
>the So.Cal. area over the weekend :)

Sat phones, smoke signals, and visual signals each have their own
failure modes. Rain-fade affects most of them. Each may be a useful
addition to your existing set of communication tools. None are
perfect substitutes for other types of telecommunication systems.
Amateur radio may be used to support life and safety operations, but
not commercial business.

I'm still waiting for the time-warp telephone, for calling before
the event happens.  But the causality loops lead to all sorts of
paradoxes.  What if you go back in time and prevent Catapiller from
building the backhoe? With no excavating equipment what would have
buried the fiber?  So there would be no fiber to get dug up, and no
reason to stop the backhoe from being built. Which ....
-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
  Affiliation given for identification not representation