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Topic	how do cell phones work??
WhiskeyDisk 10/21/17 1:31:08 AM #6:	Look, if we're being honest, I'm old enough to remember rabbit ears and rotary phones. Not a day goes by where I don't have a moment where I stare at my cellphone like a caveman. I have a.basic understanding of the technology and how it functions, but I certainly couldn't make one from scratch. That being said, I can't count the number of times I've seen someone ask a stupid question while holding a magic rectangle in their hands that effectively gives them access to the world's collective knowledge. You can even configure this magic rectangle so that all you have to do is shout at it ffs. It boggles my mind that the cellphone exists and most people just take it for granted. Bring one of these and it's functionality back to the year I graduated high school and they would have brought back witch trials and burnt you at the stake. Case in point. My kid brother who is 13 years younger than me was having car troubles trying to leave work a few months ago. He's standing in the parking lot at his job with a dead car battery, a pair of jumper cables, and a half dozen millennials with cars that start. Every single one of them has a cellphone in their hands. He texts me to ask how to jumpstart his car. I can only facepalm that not one of those millennials thought to Google how to jumpstart a fucking car. We live in a time when the common man has instant access to more information than the collective sum of all of humanity that came before us ffs and I'm flabbergasted daily by people that are oblivious to how astounding that fact is. Like I keep saying, we need a new plague. --- http://i.imgur.com/4fmtLFt.gif http://s1.zetaboards.com/sba/ ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted [p:888836186] in how do cel... [t:75901758]...</cite> <quote>Look, if we're being honest, I'm old enough to remember rabbit ears and rotary phones. Not a day goes by where I don't have a moment where I stare at my cellphone like a caveman. I have a.basic understanding of the technology and how it functions, but I certainly couldn't make one from scratch. That being said, I can't count the number of times I've seen someone ask a stupid question while holding a magic rectangle in their hands that effectively gives them access to the world's collective knowledge. You can even configure this magic rectangle so that all you have to do is shout at it ffs. It boggles my mind that the cellphone exists and most people just take it for granted. Bring one of these and it's functionality back to the year I graduated high school and they would have brought back witch trials and burnt you at the stake. Case in point. My kid brother who is 13 years younger than me was having car troubles trying to leave work a few months ago. He's standing in the parking lot at his job with a dead car battery, a pair of jumper cables, and a half dozen millennials with cars that start. Every single one of them has a cellphone in their hands. He texts me to ask how to jumpstart his car. I can only facepalm that not one of those millennials thought to Google how to jumpstart a fucking car. We live in a time when the common man has instant access to more information than the collective sum of all of humanity that came before us ffs and I'm flabbergasted daily by people that are oblivious to how astounding that fact is. Like I keep saying, we need a new plague. --- http://i.imgur.com/4fmtLFt.gif http://s1.zetaboards.com/sba/ ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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