Earthling, phone home

Apollo 15 Rover   (Public Domain)

No need to ever feel disconnected from the rest of humanity.  Not in the bathroom, not in  restaurants, not during theater productions, and certainly not on the moon.

People are now just a smartphone away from anywhere.  PT Scientists, “a German startup,” is on the verge of setting up “the first telecommunication infrastructure on the lunar surface.”

Rather than gaze wondrously at their new frontier, astronauts will instead be able to curl up alongside the rover (not a dog, but a mobile phone) and chat.  From there, sky’s not the limit.  Vacuous conversations can fill the vacuous atmosphere ad infinitum.

Resources

https://www.space.com/37753-calling-the-moon-cell-phone-tower.html 

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