Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon

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• Lantern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We believe delivering Nokia’s 4G/LTE system to the lunar surface is a transformative moment in the commercialization of space

  Absolutely love the lack of regulation for space. Going to love seeing the Google ^tm^ Moon in 50 years.

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  • dotslashme@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, no regulation means we can be space pirates and fuuuuck Google up.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’ll be laws against that though.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah these companies think just because they can they should.

    Fuck 'em. The moon is part of the view from my garden.

    I’ll fight for that.

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• Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We believe delivering Nokia’s 4G/LTE system to the lunar surface is a transformative moment in the commercialization of space and the maturity of the lunar economy.

  … I fucking hate capitalism.

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• funkajunk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I know it kind of sounds silly, but this is some of the very first infrastructure on The Moon, and that’s pretty cool.

  The Moon will likely be our main port for travel within our solar system - if we made a lunar space elevator we would use it as our launch point without having to expend so much fuel launching from Earth like we do with traditional rockets.

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The moon rotates too slowly (about once every 30 days), you don’t want a space elevator for the moon, the tether would have to be ridiculously long.

    But there’s no atmosphere, so you have another good option: a linear accelerator, or mass driver. Basically you make a very long, very straight rail and use magnetism to accelerate a craft right up to orbital velocity. The only complicated part is constructing 50 km of rail, but I mean, it’s more time consuming than complicated. This is actually way more feasible than a space elevator.

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wut? Impracticality aside, could they build such a “ridiculously long tether”? What’s they make it of? Musk farts? Can’t wait for him to bankrupt the u.s. and build a space elevator that breaks and shatters, ruining astronomy and prospects of drone explorations of Mars

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A station and then a mine would imo make more sense for a first.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People really not feeling this in the current climate for sure

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• riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I dunno. What kind of service can you get with LowG™?

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• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nokia still exists?

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, Eriksson too. Both pretty much abandoned their consumer phone business. They have pivoted to afaik mostly telecommunications infrastructure. But both companies do a bunch of other stuff.

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s not a bad bet. Clearly telecommunications infrastructure is not going away and even radio towers are never going away until physics finds an alternative.

      I do kinda miss Nokia’s creativity tho

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• EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh thank god. Was getting sick of only having hella overpriced and slow satellite internet there.

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Meahtastic on the moon… Moontastix!

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