[19718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sat phones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Wann)
Wed Sep 23 00:17:54 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:08:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bryan Wann <bwann@cwis.net>
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <980922223259.fa61@SDG.DRA.COM>
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Sean Donelan wrote:
> I'm still waiting for the time-warp telephone, for calling before
> the event happens. But the causality loops lead to all sorts of
> paradoxes. What if you go back in time and prevent Catapiller from
> building the backhoe? With no excavating equipment what would have
> buried the fiber? So there would be no fiber to get dug up, and no
> reason to stop the backhoe from being built. Which ....
Maybe we should have these one-call utility line/main marking services
cross-reference who's fiber they're tagging, and give the respective
carriers a heads-up warning before actual excavating begins... :)
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