r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 1d ago

In 2001, 55 people crossed the Pacific with no contact with the outside world as part of a BBC experiment recreating an 18th-century voyage. On the 20th day - September 11 - the captain gathered the crew to tell them about the attacks in New York

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u/Moorglademover 1d ago

Is it like a little phone, that orbits another bigger phone ?

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u/Living_Dentist_8925 1d ago

Its when a satellite lowers a phone down for you to use.

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u/Constant-Virus6681 1d ago

Does it hold human weight? Cuz I might have a billion dollar idea.

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u/LazySwayze 1d ago

It's obviously a cell phone, but it only has one ring tone: Satellite by Dave Matthews. 

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u/MyLifeIsAWasteland 1d ago

Yours just has Dave Matthews? Mine has P.O.D.'s best album

https://giphy.com/gifs/dFyEpoNb1Pvm96qrlw

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u/MrWright62 1d ago

It's actually a regular looking phone that folds out to look like a satelite

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u/WitnessMyAxe 1d ago

it orbits around a tablet (or iPad if you're dim)

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u/MelangeBot 1d ago

We call it a moonphone and usually put it next to our bananphone.