[B5JMS] How does cell phone work in Jeremiah?

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From: Claudia Mastroianni <cmastr at fas.harvard.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 2002 01:16:09 GMT
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Huang Gang <kongwong at yifan.net> wrote:
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: One thing puzzles me is the way cell phone is still working in Jeremiah's
: world since all the station would be gone and there is no power left to
: transfer the calls.  (I will leave the how does one calls out from a nuclear
: shelter with a cell phone question out.)

For that matter, why is the GPS system still working, and why does it
work inside a *mountain*.

Claudia
-- 
  Many people claim that alcohol clouds the senses.  Poor fools.  When I have
  liquor in my veins, it is the only time that I can see matters clearly.
  The more alcohol, the more clear everything becomes.
  I have been seeing matters with startling clarity as of late.
                                       -- Londo Mollari, _In the Beginning_


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 03 Aug 2002 08:24:42 GMT
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The satellites are still in orbit, and still available to anyone with the power
to get to them.

And as for accessing them from inside the mountain...in both cases, we clearly
see Markus (or Lee) plugging the phone (a smaller version of the contemporary
sat-phones) into a plug marked EXT. ANT. for exterior antenna.

So we covered that.


 jms

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