Space Archaeology (SPACE JUNK) with Alice Gorman
Ologies with Alie Ward
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The Future of Space Telecom
The way we get our phones to light up with essentially portable omniscience is mostly via phone circuits fiber optic systems cell towers and broadband cables so those long-ass wires have to go over the rivers through the woods across the oceans but they stay on earth as opposed to circling above. We end up being very space reliant and vulnerable massive solar flare for example could take out our navigation communication and earth observation satellites taking them off line which happens from time to time. There's yeah a lot of repercussions that's maybe looking forward in the future but as they exist now do you have any space artifacts up there that are close to your heart or that particularly vex you? "There are so many amazing artifacts
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