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[CloudNull]

Got any signal up here? Nokia to build mobile network on the moon

Struggling to get a phone signal at home on planet Earth? Perhaps you'll have better luck on the moon.

www.reuters.com

What a time to be alive.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

How will they power it? Will it use solar power to be Cell-f sufficient?

 

[GAMETA]

How will they power it? Will it use solar power to be Cell-f sufficient?

if the moon's always facing us, how many day's they'd get of sun light every month? 15?

 

[Deleted member 801069]

How will they power it?

Hollow Moon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[epicnemesis]

Solar power. That side of the moon is always facing the sun. Only times it doesn’t get direct sunlight is on lunar eclipses.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

For one moment I hoped for a network of PS3 CPUs being installed there. : /

 

[RoadHazard]

Solar power. That side of the moon is always facing the sun. Only times it doesn’t get direct sunlight is on lunar eclipses.

Uh, what. No side of the moon is always facing the sun.

The moon is tidally locked with the Earth, not the sun. Lol.

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Just get some starlink custom sats and you're set

 

[epicnemesis]

Uh, what. No side of the moon is always facing the sun.

The moon is tidally locked with the Earth, not the sun. Lol.

Wait explain this further.

When looking at phase models it looks like the same half is always illuminated.

Is this wrong? This is how I always thought it worked.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Tesla is looking at this no doubt they desire everything

 

[CloudNull]

Removed post. I need coffee

 

[Kamina]

Wait explain this further.

When looking at phase models it looks like the same half is always illuminated.

Is this wrong? This is how I always thought it worked.

It doesnt though
From the earth you can always only see one and the same side of the moon.
The backside is sometimes illuminated by the sun, like during an eclipse.

 

[RoadHazard]

Wait explain this further.

When looking at phase models it looks like the same half is always illuminated.

Is this wrong? This is how I always thought it worked.

That illustration is misleading, it makes it look like different sides face the Earth as the moon orbits, and that the same side always faces the sun. That's not the case. The same side of the moon always faces EARTH, but since the moon orbits the Earth once a month and the Earth orbits the sun once a year, you should be able to figure out that different sides of the moon will be illuminated during different times of the month (and this is what makes it look different throughout the month from Earth). Basically, one moon day is one Earth month.

For that illustration to be correct, the moon should be rotated as it orbits so that the same side always faces Earth.

 

[iconmaster]

Nokia has been selected by NASA to build the first cellular network on the moon, the Finnish company said on Monday, as the U.S. space agency plans for a future where humans return there and establish lunar settlements.

By the time this actually happens, no one is going to want 4G speeds.

 

[Birdo]

Is this the major announcement that NASA will make about the moon in 5 days?

It's all over Twitter, and nobody knows what it's about.

 

[hariseldon]

By the time this actually happens, no one is going to want 4G speeds.

With stuff like this what matters is battle-tested reliability. There’s a tendency to go conservative and choose something that will last for a long time and will just keep working instead of the latest and greatest.

 

[Quasicat]

For one moment I hoped for a network of PS3 CPUs being installed there. : /

Have you seen the recent prices on PS3s? If only Sony would have announced PS3 BC on the PS5, then it would be a lot cheaper to pull off.