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Just an old fart who enjoys humor in all shapes and sizes. I am the "hermit on the hill", and I like it that way.
Just an old fart who enjoys humor in all shapes and sizes. I am the "hermit on the hill", and I like it that way.
The “towers” don’t have to be towers. The equipment can be installed anywhere and small antennas can be wall mounted or hung from the ceiling. Depending on a signal strength survey, enough antennas would be installed to adequately cover the ship. These towers would of course communicate with each other as they do on Earth. At that point, cell phones on the ship could make/take calls from others in the ship. As for ship-to-Earth, or to other ships, it would be relatively easy to interface the ship’s cell system with a satellite phone (Satphone) and put up calls to any place on Earth. A lot of work and money for little gain. Ships in space have plenty of comm gear. Cell service would be redundant to the point of silly.
Still, I wonder what their area code would be…