http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/ Engadget Comments for YouNeverCall offers cash for first cell call from the moon http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Also would be quite expensive to ship out a cell tower up there.]]>Sep 23rd 2007 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 24th 2007 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/
Then, whether it's possible or not depends only on your software settings and the limits of current technology. Enjoy this with the moon-- latency from mars will make it less than enjoyable...]]>Sep 24th 2007 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/


This is just about as close to impossible as impossible comes with todays modern infrastructure. I can't even get reception in my house, i can't imagine the moon is all that much better.]]>Sep 23rd 2007 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/no?
then why propagate the attention grabbing scheme that screams "wouldn't work in the first place".]]>Sep 23rd 2007 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/
More intrestingly though, I wonder what a gps system would say if you tried to use it on the moon.]]>Sep 23rd 2007 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/
And don't forget to set it to vibrate, I'm sure you won't hear those ring tones neither.]]>Sep 23rd 2007 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/]]>Sep 23rd 2007 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/]]>Sep 23rd 2007 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/
Nixon made the first call to the moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htx5oT-s2wA

Tricky Dick FTW!]]>Sep 23rd 2007 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/]]>Sep 24th 2007 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/- a cell phone
- a test suite (http://www.home.agilent.com/agilent/product.jspx?nid=-536900143.0.00&cc=US&lc=eng)
- an asterisk server on the ground

and you can piggyback the celldata down to the ground. Or what about those t-mobile "cellphones" that automatically switch to 802.11?]]>Sep 23rd 2007 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 23rd 2007 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/
and maybe attach a super cantenna onto the AiRave to make up for space being one giant vacuum.]]>Sep 26th 2007 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 24th 2007 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/Sep 24th 2007 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/23/younevercall-offers-cash-for-first-cell-call-from-the-moon/
The moon always shows the same side of itself to Earth throughout it's orbit, even though the Earth is always revolving much faster "below." An astronaut would just have to time his call when he's positioned opposite the United States. He'd probably light up every cell phone tower in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. No roaming charges, because his home area would be active too.

This is similar to how you would receive the same satellite video from anywhere in the U.S. It's just that the astronaut's satellite cell phone on the moon is calling from 10x further than a geosynchronous (stationary orbit) satellite.

Radio signals (and TV and cell phone calls) travel outward from Earth to the rest of the solar system every day and can be received easily so the reverse is also true. Otherwise the Apollo astronauts would not have been able to communicate with mission control, right?

The phone call would have to be made from the Lunar Lander because you can't hold or dial a cell phone in your helmet, right?

It's not as ridiculous as it sounds. The only thing that I'm unclear about is whether a cell phone's low-wattage radio is powerful enough to reach the earth without using a huge antenna like "Arecibo" in Puerto Rico to hear it.
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