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Can't imagine those things are available anywhere for that cheap. Why not require 4g tracking on them all if they're already $1000 items?

madeofpalk 4y ago
Western Australia desert is very very big and empty. No 4G there.
- noveltyaccount 4y ago
  iPhones can send sms via satellite now, seems achievable to have these capsules sent their gps coordinates every few hours or so...just in case.
- shagie 4y ago
  > Western Australia desert is very very big and empty. The size is rather impressive... when I read the article there was another Australia article in the sidebar - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/world/australia/australia-floods-drive.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/world/australia/australia... which is a prose version of https://twitter.com/cragget2/status/1614873268657475587 https://twitter.com/cragget2/status/1614873268657475587 > For xmas, mum and dad drove from Kununura to Broome and then flew down to Perth (cheaper than flying from kun). Then a biblical flood came and destroyed the only road connecting Broome and Kununura, stranding their car in Broome.. > .. until dad got permission from mum to do this: (embed map of northern Australia with a route of 64 hours and 4,770 km) That's a hair under 3000 miles and as one reply commented ( https://twitter.com/tony_neilson/status/1615278118247497728 https://twitter.com/tony_neilson/status/1615278118247497728 ) only 18km longer than driving from Gibraltar to Moscow by way of Pairs, Berlin, and Warsaw (which might be the fastest route?) The twitter post continues with updates on the drive.
morpheuskafka 4y ago
The source fell out of the equipment, which somehow broke apart in transit. A detector on the equipment wouldn't help and you can't put a detector on the source itself, it's just a capsule that needs to go inside a certain place in the device.
- giardini 4y ago
  >...which somehow broke apart in transit...< This is IMO the real puzzle.
- eternityforest 4y ago
  A detector on the equipment would tell you when it stopped detecting radiation, or even just when it wasn't secured properly to stop it falling out in the first place. If the radiation stops, you have really good info on where to look, and fast response time.

madeofpalk 4y ago

Western Australia desert is very very big and empty. No 4G there.

noveltyaccount 4y ago
iPhones can send sms via satellite now, seems achievable to have these capsules sent their gps coordinates every few hours or so...just in case.
shagie 4y ago
> Western Australia desert is very very big and empty. The size is rather impressive... when I read the article there was another Australia article in the sidebar - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/world/australia/australia-floods-drive.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/world/australia/australia... which is a prose version of https://twitter.com/cragget2/status/1614873268657475587 https://twitter.com/cragget2/status/1614873268657475587 > For xmas, mum and dad drove from Kununura to Broome and then flew down to Perth (cheaper than flying from kun). Then a biblical flood came and destroyed the only road connecting Broome and Kununura, stranding their car in Broome.. > .. until dad got permission from mum to do this: (embed map of northern Australia with a route of 64 hours and 4,770 km) That's a hair under 3000 miles and as one reply commented ( https://twitter.com/tony_neilson/status/1615278118247497728 https://twitter.com/tony_neilson/status/1615278118247497728 ) only 18km longer than driving from Gibraltar to Moscow by way of Pairs, Berlin, and Warsaw (which might be the fastest route?) The twitter post continues with updates on the drive.

morpheuskafka 4y ago

The source fell out of the equipment, which somehow broke apart in transit. A detector on the equipment wouldn't help and you can't put a detector on the source itself, it's just a capsule that needs to go inside a certain place in the device.

giardini 4y ago
>...which somehow broke apart in transit...< This is IMO the real puzzle.
eternityforest 4y ago
A detector on the equipment would tell you when it stopped detecting radiation, or even just when it wasn't secured properly to stop it falling out in the first place. If the radiation stops, you have really good info on where to look, and fast response time.