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>Nope, get a sat-phone, some wood & wet blankets, semephore flags, a mirror and >brush up on you Moris code. .. (after reading up on tsunami threats for >the So.Cal. area over the weekend :) Sat phones, smoke signals, and visual signals each have their own failure modes. Rain-fade affects most of them. Each may be a useful addition to your existing set of communication tools. None are perfect substitutes for other types of telecommunication systems. Amateur radio may be used to support life and safety operations, but not commercial business. I'm still waiting for the time-warp telephone, for calling before the event happens. But the causality loops lead to all sorts of paradoxes. What if you go back in time and prevent Catapiller from building the backhoe? With no excavating equipment what would have buried the fiber? So there would be no fiber to get dug up, and no reason to stop the backhoe from being built. Which .... -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
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