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Survivorship bias, it is totally a thing! There are mountain tops that have cell service now days (great line of sight!). People get lost in the woods pretty o
by com2kid 4y ago
Survivorship bias, it is totally a thing!
There are mountain tops that have cell service now days (great line of sight!). People get lost in the woods pretty often.
Heck just having a compass + map that works offline can get people unstuck. How many lost person stories used to end with "and he died just a few miles from the nearest town"?
Of course that sentence is now relegated to history because because almost everyone has a GPS in their pocket!
- eternityforest 4y agoI think the government should really make a big deal out of satellite messengers being cheap and available for all hikers. What if they subsidized them so that you could make emergency calls with no monthly fee? I wonder how many lives they would save if it was so readily available people didn't think of leaving cell range without one?