"Rocket Science vs Cellular Science" - some humor (no audi content)

[QSHIPQ@aol.com]

Mark proffered
<< Science "is not rocket science"!   For the past 5 years I 
 swapped into Cellular Telephony (you know ... car phones
 & stuff) developing the infrastructure equipment (the cell 
 radio system).  Contrary to what you might believe, the
 complexity and technology in that is at least 10 times greater
 than anything in satellites (at least apart from the materials
 science).  The computers used in the Shuttle are 30yr old
 technology! >> 

QSHIPQ retunded:
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And I have a brother that works for Motorola who says the same thing...  So,
a rephrase would be, "It's not cellular science"  more appropriate...  
Though I might venture an argument that you can't have cellular science
without the
rocket science....  My vision of rocket science is a bunch of pocket
protector white shirts, and loud wide ties, with short hair and thick 
glasses sitting at a row of desks figgring how to launch projectiles in the 
directionthey want based on gravitational forces calculated via a slide rule
and
paper....  For that vision, I remain with the statement:
It ain't rocket science....

Scott
>>>>>>>>>>>>  Forwarded message to brother at Motorola, his retort was:
To:	QSHIPQ@aol.com (Receipt Notification Requested)

Hey there Scott!
Yes, we do have some rather geeky types walking around in white shirts and 
thick glasses... only difference being that they are mostly 24 yr. olds 
fresh out of Champagne Urbana, driving flashy little Cavaliers, and have 
probably never seen a slide rule no less knowing how to use one.  Cellular 
infrastructure exists for one purpose only- to gain the ability to charge 
the customer.  There's no reason phones can't talk directly to other phones 
locally, repeater sites don't "have" to be connected to massive billing 
centers, repeater sites could take your tiny little modulated EMB field and 
hook you directly to a land line.... but then, how do the Cell One's of the 
world get to send you those outrageous bills every month?  Who would be put 
out of work not making all those nifty little dish antennas with the 
lightning bolt decals?  And without the $680 average yearly cell phone bill 
for each subscriber, that free cell phone from McDonald's is going to take a 
$250-$300 donation to Ronald McDonald House.  So could you really say "It 
ain't Billed Airtime..."?
Jim.
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Guess we're back to, "it ain't rocket science" and that certainly applies to
Cellular motives, but looks like Mark has some good job security to save for
that S8....

:")

Scott