Technology goes wild

AT&T wants to make sure you can't get too far into the wild to get lost.
New cell phone, the TerreStar Genus, that came out today will use satellite coverage to reach the furthest points of the nation and coastlines.  For just an additonal $25 a month and 65 cents per minute, you will be able to have cell phone coverage in the most remote wilderness we have to offer. Of course, the phone costs almost $800.  Initially, it will only be available to "professionals", and hit retail stores later this year.  You can also use this phone to email from remote locations via satellite...for a mere $5 a megabyte or 400 times the going rate of internet back home.

Soon, there will be no place you can escape the ring-tone of your cell phone.  The wilderness will truly be tamed...forest rangers, search and rescue teams, emergency crews will find it useful.
Everyone will feel secure in venturing into the wilderness, when they can call for help from anywhere!

There are a couple of drawbacks; you do have to have a clear view of the southern sky, where the satellite hovers, without trees, buildings, hills or canyon walls. Another drawback, the satellite is only aimed at the U.S. and doesn't provide global coverage.  So if you are carrying you $800 phone, and fall down into one of the southwests canyons, there is still the chance that you could enter back into the food chain for a hungry turkey vulture or coyote, before you could use it.

Birds: 150 mile money race scheduled for the upcoming weekend, in Beaver, Utah where I still have two birds competing.

Honey: My honey's blog has drawn a lot of negative attention for comments about Evergreen International...stop over and read it to draw you own informed conclusions.