Maybe Better Answerd In Science, I Dont Know! But....

[nailit]

Been over my son's today, in Haslington (A suburb of Crewe) and could not get a decent telephone reception to Stoke, let alone a video reception which proved impossible...
So how come that NASA spoke (and received) video calls from nearly 1/4 of a million miles away
back in 1969 when man went to the moon?
(long before 1g, 2g, 3g, 4g and now 5g??

If earth can communicate with space all that time ago
Then why (50 yrs later) cannot we communicate a few miles down the road??

[nailit]

If it was a different technology then why wasnt that developed....

[douglas9401]

Haslington, we have a problem.

[tiggerblue10]

You need some plastic cups and very long string.

[nailit]

//Haslington, we have a problem.//

We did today....
Tried to make a phone call....
Not to much to ask considering that one was made to the moon!

[ToraToraTora]

"If earth can communicate with space all that time ago
Then why (50 yrs later) cannot we communicate a few miles down the road?? " - we can, it's just that in the case you describe the system isn't quite working. I had a meeting yesterday with people fronm US, INDIA and UK.

[Canary42]

Houston had an enormous antennae pointing towards the moon. Not something you'd like in your back garden ;-)

[nailit]

// I had a meeting yesterday with people fronm US, INDIA and UK.//
Would you have had that meeting in 1969?

[douglas9401]

Just stop for a second and imagine doing this stuff face-to-face.

Would you get involved a second time?

[nailit]

//Just stop for a second and imagine doing this stuff face-to-face.
Would you get involved a second time? //

You might have a point there...

Errr. Yes, I would.

[Peter Pedant]

Hamming codes
at least three on U tube to keep you off the street

1980 - wasnt there a Mars/Mercury probe? anyway the strength of the sigmal was around a trillionth of a watt - that's very small, reader - and so an error-correcting code was used

honestly someone asked -and this is how they recd weak signals from very far away.

so that is the Jupiter or Mars bit done (*)

haslingdon - I will have to think about that one

(*) for some reason they did this ( hamming error correcting codes) in O.U.Maff 206, which I did around 1983.

You remember The Memorandum, Warren Mitchell played Thumb, about the office language, Ptydepe ? ( tie-deep in English but puh-tee-deppay in Czech) in which it was written by Vaclav Havel, later first president of the independent republic?

https://mubi.com/films/the-memorandum

each word is 60% different from each other for max comprehension.
gh ( guh-huh) is used for 'productivity' - the commonest word

same principle in Hamming codes

[ToraToraTora]

"Would you have had that meeting in 1969? " - no, of course not what are you talking about? You said: "If earth can communicate with space all that time ago
Then why (50 yrs later) cannot we communicate a few miles down the road?? " - I say that's BS, you just found a part of the infrastructure that isn't quite working and then said we are no better off that 1969. It's like saying that if your car is broken down you are no better off than when we had horse drawn vehicles. Crass.

[nailit]

Without been the chicken on the chessboard then 3T, You got an answer?

[nailit]

Why werent you having video calls in 1969 3T?
They had them then?
(To the moon)

[Zacs-Master]

It was all done in a studio in Burbank fgs.

[nailit]

Or pigeon on the chessboard even....
In '69
'79
'89
'99
'2009
and now 5g!

But STILL can't get a signal from rural
areas?? How much more rural is space?
Nearly 1/4 million miles to the moon.

[ToraToraTora]

"Without been the chicken on the chessboard then 3T, You got an answer? " - I don't understand what you are asking.

[Zacs-Master]

Do people not have the education to know the difference between ‘being’ and ‘been’?

[nailit]

//"Without been the chicken on the chessboard then 3T, You got an answer? "//

My bad...
Without been the PIGEON on the chess board.
Do you have an answer?

[ToraToraTora]

An answer to what? You're talking gibberish.