You don't think they could perhaps grow their own food .. or is that too far fetched?
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iPad Makes Its Way to the Farthest Reaches of the Earth
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You don't think they could perhaps grow their own food .. or is that too far fetched?
Take life as it comes and ease up. I would love that island, but then again I'm one of those laid back Cali kids for life.
"Hi. My iPad died".
"All righty let me just get your address and we'll ship you a replacement."
"k. Actually, let me go grab the flight schedule."
"All righty let me just get your address and we'll ship you a replacement."
"k. Actually, let me go grab the flight schedule."
Are you mentally challenged? Have you never heard of business called "FARMING"?
It gets your food also, but you of course don't see farming because you think everything grows in supermarkets...
so, this may shock you: apple products don't actually grow in apple stores, they are built/assembled by some Chinese people!
Umm.. New Zealand is (north or south) a "remote island".
Actually I know a bloke who ferries people to the island from Raratonga: he's a Kiwi biodiversity scientist with a survey & tour ship (yacht since 2009) that also serves as a transport and charter ship, mostly for the trans-French Polynesia route from the Cooks to Pitcairn. Read all about it:
http://www.pacific-expeditions.com/about_us/graham_wragg.asp
As a side note, I'm sure they would be blown away by the iPad, it would seem magical....oh the technology we take for granted...
You can't expect too much from him. He is, after all, one of the wonderfully observant people in this thread that have asked how Pitcairn residents get their Internet - even though it says right in the news post (you don't even need to read the article that is linked) that it is by satellite... *sigh*
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)
Pretty awesome. I do research on a remote island in the Bahamas with about 14 full Tim residents (who all work on the island taking care of the mini-electrical plant and scientists/boaters that stop by). We get our (lousy, works less than half the time and is slower than dialup most of the time) Internet from satellite and our food the same way we get to the island---by boat or seaplane. You don't get too many fresh veggies or fruit since the supply boat only comes every month or two.
More power to the people that can actually live in those conditions...I go stir crazy after a few weeks and a month on the island alone almost drove me insane!!
Pretty awesome. I do research on a remote island in the Bahamas with about 14 full Tim residents (who all work on the island taking care of the mini-electrical plant and scientists/boaters that stop by). We get our (lousy, works less than half the time and is slower than dialup most of the time) Internet from satellite and our food the same way we get to the island---by boat or seaplane. You don't get too many fresh veggies or fruit since the supply boat only comes every month or two.
More power to the people that can actually live in those conditions...I go stir crazy after a few weeks and a month on the island alone almost drove me insane!!
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According to Wikipedia they grow all sorts of stuff like pineapples, coconuts, bananas etc.
I thought it was an awesome story too, very interesting.
Andrew where are u?
Still waiting for Andrew to waste some of his limited 2GB bandwidth quota and reply to some of these stupid comments we've been posting...
Still waiting for Andrew to waste some of his limited 2GB bandwidth quota and reply to some of these stupid comments we've been posting...
How about an iPhone 4 that went into the upper stratosphere?
http://www.vimeo.com/15091562
Not quite an iPad, but still pretty neat.
And there is the answer to what he would want on a deserted island.
lol
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That wasn't an iPhone 4. Read the comments from the author which say:
Luke Geissbuhler said:
Especially the part about half the island being found guilty of having sex with children!
i don't suppose you actually watched the video where it shows them putting an iphone in the capsule so they could track it's return via gps?
it's right there in the video at 1m40s.
I could not live on that island, ever! I pay US$60 per month for unlimited 1000 Mbit/s downstream and 100 Mbit/s upstream.For me it would only take 5 minutes and 20 sec to use up all of your yearly bandwidth, at full speed.
Talk about people living in the stone age.
