Posted on 03/10/2014 7:53:39 AM PDT by jimbo123
I actually dropped my cell phone over board at the dock in salt water. It landed in bottom mud so I used my friends phone to call mine. It rang and lit up. It was a flip phone but not waterproof. However. ..that only worked for a couple hours. ..But still pretty impressive.
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My wife travels internationally A LOT. If her phone goes straight to voicemail, she is on a plane or phone is turned off. If it rings then goes to voicemail she doesnt want to talk to me.
Shouldn’t these calls be going to voice mail?
Maybe the plane went down in the jungles of Viet Nam and there are random, scattered phones ringing until their batteries fail.
Speaking of communications...what is the reason that a 50 million dollar aircraft would not have a tamper-proof GPS
device that pings the satellite every few seconds on transocean flights? All I’ve heard of is talk about the limitations of surface radar due to earth curvature. Anyone have any insight?
I thought of that one too and I know that episode well, they break the time barrier or something, go back to prehistoric days over NYC and then, come back a little bit in time, 20th century but not to the present time, they saw the World’s Fair that was held there, maybe it was the 1939 WF.
If the phones are not answered they will go to voice mail too, also if the phones can actually reach a cell tower they would be easy to locate from the cell tower information.
With STOOPID Sprint you can call someone and hear a ring and that means nothing. For years Sprint’s system lies. I can be holding the receiving phone with bars on it, and yet 100 feet away the same Sprint account phone is calling it. Bars on both, ringing tone on the calling phone and yet silence from the so called receiving set.
btw: If I turn the receiving phone off. The call will go straight to voice mail. That does work as intended.
In the old landline days the ring tone actually was the same electric signal induced on the wires from the ringing voltages at the other end. That’s why we used to hear weird ring sounds when calling far away. That’s when society held some honesty.
My take is that a cell phone is a computer connected to a computer.
The intermediate computer doesn’t know the cell phone computer is dead
I somewhat remember that episode.
Too bad they don’t make TV like that anymore.
Nowadays, it’s gay this, gay that.
If aliens came to visit, they would think that half the planet is queer.
I should have made it clear, that episode “To serve man” is a play on words, it seems that aliens visit earth and vow to serve man and people line up to get on the spaceship to go back to their planet.
But it is sort of a double-meaning, to “Serve Man” meant that the aliens were getting people to indeed, “eat”, the aliens mission was indeed to “Serve Man”.
See the original: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2165/2130119407_f832099505.jpg
I probably didn’t need to post the picture but it seemed sort of related.
I’ve heard some people here speculate that the plane could of been stolen and the people made into prisoners in preparation for some nefarious plan.
If the reports all turn out to be true, it begs the question of whether or not the flight went down in the ocean at all, and opens the question of whether or not it is on the ground somewhere; or even that it secretly landed somewhere.
The 9/11 terrorists turned off the transponders to the aircraft and I think that’s what happened in this case, too. The plan is on the ground and they’re loading it up with a nuke device of some sort. That was the plan back in 2004-2005 and they might pull it off now.
Exactly, it’s almost appearing that way now, 2-3 days and nothing found confirming it crashed, exploded, etc.
Maybe, at the least, that would be a good plot for an espionage thriller.
“When you call someone you don’t hear their telephone ring, you hear a ringback tone supplied by the telephone network.”
I had forgotten that.
However, they should change their systems. Their systems KNOW if they actually reach a called cell-phone unit or not. It might be busy, or simply no one snswers, or someone answers - but all three states are known, as well as the state that the network cannot locate the unit (it’s off, or “dead”).
The caller should get back from the network, a tone, or a series of tones that distinguishes the state of the connection as the network knows it to be - “calling a unit it has located”, connected, busy, no answer, or unit not located.
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