Sphinx Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 your cellphone is inside a giant faraday shield when you are in an airplane. you'd have a hard time keeping a conversation. Also, modern digital phones broadcast at very low wattage since they are designed for operating in a forest of cell towers. I believe this is why you can be up on a mountain and get great coverage according to the phone's "bars" as it picks up transmissions from a tower, but the second you try to make a call out, it drops the connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothrop Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 minx said: i'm surprised to find that this is one of the biggest issues that i'll be consider in the next presidential election. it may be the reason i don't vote for Dean. Â Why? What's Dean's position on the issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratboy Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 David_Parker said: Reps Jay Inslee and Norm Dicks have also voted to remove the section about searching homes without a warrant or prior notification. Â This is good to hear. I've happily supported Inslee since I moved to his district, but I was very disappointed to hear he voted for the Patriot Act. Said act was the main reason that some conservatives -- BoB Barr comes to mind -- turned around and joined one of their most hated organizations: the ACLU. Power to them if they're trying to bring this law down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 JoshK said: Small electronics don't do shit to planes. This is more fear-mongering. I think the cell phone crap came to be from the desire of airlines to get people to use the on-board pay phones. I think this crap is about as dumb as the no cell phones at gas station BS. Might as well just say no metal objects at all are allowed, esp. cars themselves. Â Â Motherfucker. Dr. Flash Amazing ever catches you yakkin' on your cell phone during takeoff, you'll spend the rest of the flight trying to crap it back out. Â Plane crasher! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 iain said: your cellphone is inside a giant faraday shield when you are in an airplane. you'd have a hard time keeping a conversation. Also, modern digital phones broadcast at very low wattage since they are designed for operating in a forest of cell towers. I believe this is why you can be up on a mountain and get great coverage according to the phone's "bars" as it picks up transmissions from a tower, but the second you try to make a call out, it drops the connection. Â What about those heroes that brought down the 9/11 flight in PA? The standard lore is that they called their SO's on cell-phones and found out what was happening and thus sacrificed themselves for the good of whomever those terrorists were planning on flying them into. How were they able to have those conversations? Â Or is it all a myth like the Jessica Lynch thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 And what about no cell-phones in hospitals? Is that all just a fear-mongering thing also? Is it just to force people to use the hospital phones .  The whole no electronics on airplanes is crazy and scary. It's either one thing or the other, both scary. Either 1) They really have no idea why the planes malfunction and crash and kill everyone, so they just make some wild-ass guess and prohibit something to give the illusion that they are actually in control  2) Planes actually are so fragile that Gameboys could send them plummeting into the tarmac!! That is the most scary .   Maybe the next terroristas can just bring about 10 gameboys and a couple of calculator watches onto the plane (not prohibited) and then threaten to turn them ALL ON AT ONCE . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 they might have used the ones on the seats  maybe I am full of it HAHAHAHA  wouldn't be the first time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 Recently I was on a flight where a middle-aged woman received a call just after takeoff. Instead of turning the thing off, she took the call! I reached across the aisle and tapped her shoulder and asked her to turn it off. She frowned at me and turned away and continued to talk. Other people around her were clearly annoyed but did nothing. Finally I told her in a deep voice to turn the Goddamn phone off Now, which she responded to. Â We must've gotten to 5-6,000 feet by then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 iain said: they might have used the ones on the seats  oh yeah. duh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 Blackhawk helicopters became known as lawn-darts when the CB's in mexican taxicabs driving underneath them interfered with flight electronics. Put 'em into a nosedive every time the driver keyed the mic. Took awhile for the military to piece together what was happening. Enjoy your flight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lummox Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 chucK said: Maybe the next terroristas can just bring about 10 gameboys and a couple of calculator watches onto the plane (not prohibited) and then threaten to turn them ALL ON AT ONCE . dont be giving out tips like that mother fucker. osama bin laden has operatives scanning the internet looking for just that kind of chink in the armor. loose lips sink ships. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 don't you already wear several calculator watches chuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 I always fight a compulsive desire to turn the altimeter field on my suunto while above 29,999... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 to bad it would only read about 7 grand in the cabin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 gee, oops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 iain said: don't you already wear several calculator watches chuck  Yes. It is such a pain to have to boot them all up when going through the airport security Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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