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From Freshpeel
Category: Digital Media, Technology
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
And if a major nuclear explosion (no matter what the cause) wipes out ALL wireless communication?
Think about it.
Would expect better attention to detail from an accountancy. For me, the first line renders the rest of the message / data suspect.
Highly unlikely there are 4.8 billion people that own mobile phones. More likely there are 4.8 billion mobile devices in use (multiple devices per person, M2M for smart meters, etc.) or some other similar metric.
Peter, a major nuclear explosion is not capable of that result.
Modern transportion infrastructure is vulnerable. Remember the Iceland volcanoes that paralized air-travel last year.
However the Internet was developed as a distributed system to survive an “Atomic War” – military systems are “hardened” to take an EM pulse (Electro magnetic) and hardwired into the system. Ordinary civilian systems are still vulnerable.
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Hmmm… 4.8B people have mobile devices, only 4.2B have a toothbrush. So 600 million people worldwide talk on a cell phone but don’t brush their teeth??? I think Scruffy got it right, this data looks a little suspect.
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