jclements Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Oh, ONE word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Â So here's a little device needing to be invented... rather than having a trusted person at home call rescue services, you get a special cell phone with a timer that calls out at some time when you should be back, leave it somewhere close to a tower near your excursion area. It calls 911 with your prerecorded voice that says, "Help, we're in trouble out here in X, and my cell phone is about to-" bam, clock is ticking on people in trouble in the backcountry, thereby doubling or tripling the rescue efforts. Mind if I steal this idea and market it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmace Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 rather than having a trusted person at home call rescue services, you get a special cell phone with a timer that calls out at some time  Dude the idea sucks as soon as you try and tell me that technology is smarter than a trusted human being  besides I can set up text messages on delay already  as far as the media goes its a business, more than likely the resources involved and the timing of the crystal episode just didnt mix with easier dramatic news already available.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off_White Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 News, like any product, must be sold. I'm sure they put a lot of thought into deciding what's going to sell, and missing snowboarders just don't make the cut. I think Sexy is right though, if the missing boarders had a cell phone to make a desperate plea for help, they'd be a better product to market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 everyone knows snowboarders are godless, degenerate, drug-smoking hippies who deserve whatever wrath gods spit out at them  everybody loves a story about innocents getting screwed though, and we climbers are sure...uh...hmmm.  perhaps if they had been accompanied by a large, wooden badger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jclements Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Mind if I steal this idea and market it? Â Well, my patent agent is billing me crazy on the Mountain Rescue Maximization Unit (MRMU), to be available for the spring REI catalog, but have your people call mine and they can talk licensing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 ...In the movie, dude (played by Mark Wahlberg) opens his cell phone, looks at his best buddy from high school buried alongside him in the debris, insert shot of several bars on cell phone screen, and then his buddy nods, and Marky Mark clicks the cell phone shut. Â WTF movie was that? Was it schmaltzy? Or just plain crap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Mind if I steal this idea and market it? Â Well, my patent agent is billing me crazy on the Mountain Rescue Maximization Unit (MRMU), to be available for the spring REI catalog, but have your people call mine and they can talk licensing. Never mind. My people just applied for the patent. Oh, and my lobbiests are heading for Salem now. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 one word answers please  Money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsroll Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Recent large snow fall + idiots that don't know what they are doing = rescue. Â Sorry for the families but if these guys had any clue then they would have not headed out. Â Media non-coverage cause snowboarding is not considered risky even if it is in the backcountry anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choada_Boy Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 NEWS FLASH! I JUST ATE A SANDWICH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TREETOAD Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007  So here's a little device needing to be invented... rather than having a trusted person at home call rescue services, you get a special cell phone with a timer that calls out at some time when you should be back, leave it somewhere close to a tower near your excursion area. It calls 911 with your prerecorded voice that says, "Help, we're in trouble out here in X, and my cell phone is about to-" bam, clock is ticking on people in trouble in the backcountry, thereby doubling or tripling the rescue efforts. Mind if I steal this idea and market it?  Already been done. www.findmespot.com  Now, the question is...how long till this kind of doomahickee is going to be required if you want to step out into the boonies    Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Slick. Now make it smaller and insert it behind my ear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Already been done. www.findmespot.com Sheeeeeeeeeeeeee-it! Â Now, the question is...how long till this kind of doomahickee is going to be required if you want to step out into the boonies Double sheeeeeeeeeeeeee-it!!!1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Slick. Now make it smaller and insert it behind my ear. Â Or pin it on your chest. Â *tap* "Picard to Bug! WTF is my Earl Grey?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Ninties interpretation of the 24th century. There is no need for military in deep space. If there were, we would be dead by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Interesting postulate. But maybe the aliens haven't seen our warp signature yet. Once they do, I can see your position. We need to be assimilated. Or be extincted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 For all we know, they may have probed you last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Is *that* why my butt hurts today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Â I don't want to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric8 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Hood also has a history of accidents and media coverage... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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