Title: I&#x27;ve been offline since last Wednesday, driving and camping throughout northern outback australia (escaping the vid!). I have a second rate carrier and tonight I hear my phone ping for the first time since I left. I&#x27;ve had reception before, but usually only while driving, usually passing through a larger town. This time I&#x27;m sitting next to the fire, near a town called Nhulunbuy in East Arnhem, aboriginal land, one of the more remote regions on the planet. I&#x27;m on a small red cliff overlooking the ocean, I&#x27;ve spotted a largish croc on the sand below only an hour before, and I can see the entire milky way above me (it&#x27;s a new moon). As i&#x27;m writing this I just looked up and saw a satellite. The sky&#x27;s been pretty similar the last week, but still it&#x27;s spectacular. Anyway my phone pings and I pick it up and I end up reading the news and checking HN (for the first time in two weeks .. same old stories). What gives?
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