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We need to have places where there is no cell coverage. We just have to have that. The alternative is a world where we never can get away, ever.
by esaym 9y ago
We need to have places where there is no cell coverage. We just have to have that. The alternative is a world where we never can get away, ever.
- graton 9y agoThere is a place in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q...
- CapitalistCartr 9y ago"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere." --Lazarus Long
- colek42 9y agoYou can always leave your phone at home, or put it in airplane mode.
- khedoros1 9y agoCan I please leave everyone else's phone at home too?
- hellbanner 9y agoIf you jam, but that's illegal.
- mikeash 9y agoThere's no chance of that happening long term. We already live in a world where there is no place where without data coverage if you pay for fancy equipment and service. Global coverage for cell phones is just a matter of time.
- teeray 9y agoWhere I am in the northeast right now, it's about -15°F. There are roads passing through unpopulated areas of National Forest that have no cell service. If you break down along these roads and no one drives by to help, what in warmer climates would be just an unfortunate inconvenience would leave you frozen to death by dawn. We shouldn't compromise safety because we lack the self control to turn on Do Not Disturb mode.
- ghaff 9y agoThere are satellite systems if you care enough to get one.
- Casseres 9y agoSounds like an EPIRB for the car would be a good investment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_radiobeacon_station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...
- zkms 9y agoLetting mobile operators build LTE base stations is a far better one; expecting people to buy/carry/test 406MHz beacons (as opposed to a cell phone, which they test by virtue of regularly using it) to call for a tow truck is folly. NIMBY objections to operators installing base stations really shouldn't override people's ability to summon appropriate (a car breaking down in extremely cold weather doesn't need a full-on SAR response, but it does need a response) emergency services. Also if someone is using their phone in a national park, you can always walk the hell away from them; your laziness doesn't entitle you to prevent the buildout of cell service that can save lives.
- Casseres 9y ago> you can always walk the hell away from them; your laziness doesn't entitle you Someone said they had a remote, dangerous drive, and all I did was offer a suggestion to help their safety. When I went backpacking alone in Yellowstone, I carried a PLB. When I sweated buckets working in the engine rooms on ships at sea, we had EPIRBs. I'm not going to retract my statement about investing in an EPIRB/PLB - a life-saving device. I don't see how my previous comment indicated any opinion on my part about the proliferation of cellular coverage. Getting angry at me was uncalled-for.
- tomjen3 9y agoYou can leave your phone at home. However like everyone else you will also have to learn that you don't get to dictate what other people do.
- andrewflnr 9y agoThis is hyperbolic. Turn off your phone, or wrap it in foil, or get rid of it. There's a discussion to be had about phones that don't actually turn off, but it's a much less dramatic one.
- chrismcb 9y agoGet away from what? Nothing says you have to take a phone with you. And there are still a lot of places where there aren't many other people.