Re: Sat phones

["David Diaz/I.P.O.F.-Netrail, Inc." <davediaz () netrail net>]

I here quest has dug up it's share of fibre according to worldcom.  That
locomotive with the plows (3 trenches) takes no prisoners


At 3:32 AM -0000 9/23/98, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > 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


Thank you,
David Diaz
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