TALL ORDER
For almost forty years since the moon landing in 1969, a generation have been able to use the following statement:
"We can send a man to the moon, but we still can't do XYZ",
where XYZ can be anything that should be relatively doable with a little elbow grease, and a lot of government sponsorship, billions of dollars, and a global, life-or-death, cold-war fueled rivalry.
Well, we now finally have something that can replace the statement above, with something more suitable for the 21st century. The BBC reports that:
"A British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest...
The calls were made possible when China set up a mobile base station with a line of sight to the north ridge."
So now, whenever any of us can't make a quality call, whether we're in the canyons of New York City, or the valleys of the Bay Area, we can say:
"We can make a call off of Mount Everest, but we still can't get a good, reliable signal out of XYZ."
A whole new spin on "Can you Hear me Now?"
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