Comment Ms. Bitters was right (Score 1) 421
I believe this covers the important aspects of this story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjNBzyLqDPM
I find this whole idea hard to swallow.
Hasn't this already happened?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
I was one of those people on the beach. Stupid cloud
You don't realise how cheap the sondes are. There are hundreds launched every day, and they don't get them back. They have to be incredibly cheap and there are no GSM technologies cheaper than a simple FM radio.
There are technical limitations too - GSM only works up to about 5km, above that they will likely fail. Sondes usually fly to about 30km.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol