Nextel

[TXFirefighter112]

Tower Base 2. Nome, Alaska -- In a promotional scheme criticized by many as overly ambitious and wasteful, Nextel Communications has erected a massive radio-transmitting antenna that is over a million times larger than any structure ever built by man. Rising from the Arctic Circle, the colossal tower is affixed to the earth by four support pylons mounted in Greenland, Central Canada, Central Soviet Union and an artificial island in the North Pacific specially built for this project. The full hieght is estimated at 170,000 miles, dwarfing New York's Empire State Building once the tallest man-made structure at 1,449 feet.

The wieght of the tower is estimated to be about 1/8 the wieght of the earth itself. Steel produced by 43 nations and comprising over 90% of the world's steel resources was used to build the tower. More than 70% of the world's existing buildings had to be destroyed, melted down, and incorporated into the mighty 200 mile wide supports. Astronomers are concerned of the tower's affect on the earth's orbit around the sun.

"To Actually build a working radio tower, with such a powerful signal that transmissions are visible as huge lightning bolts saoring through space, could compromise the earths position in the solar system." said Astronomer George Kracken

Since the tower's construction, no one on earth has been able to tune to any non-Nextel Broadcast, regardless of how the tuning dial is adjusted.

[ECPD279]

1) Ummmm.....didn't Nextel already use that one in a commercial?

2) If the tower is 1/8 the weight of the Earth, and is made of steel (which is a metal made from iron, a naturally occuring mineral in the earth itself), wouldn't the earth's weight be reduced by the amount that was taken for the tower? Could we possibly mine the iron from another iron rich planet, say Mars?

3) Last but not least, I would be concerned that the earth would sort of flip over from the weight at the north pole. You know, kind of like when you try to balance a rock on a ball, it always tries to turn over.

4) How many TeraWatts (that's TRILLIONS of watts!) is the proposed output?

5) If anyone has read this far and thinks I am serious, maybe you SHOULD build this tower!!

[TXFirefighter112]

Actually the weight of the earth would remain the same. The Tower would just account for 1/8 the weight I guess.

[nmfire10]

Please don't give them ideas.

[SEMTTP]

And we know that this is really not true, and it is not a nextel tower, and that it only exists as a picture!


Eric

[TXFirefighter112]

I never said it was true, note that the original article came put of the PARODY newspaper The Onion, and was about RKO Pictures Image. I just modified it a little bit so that it would be about Nextel because of the thread "800 mhz interference" or something like that.

[Thunderbolt]

When I read this post, the first thing that came to mind was the old RKO Radio-Pictures logo! Now that brings back memories of many classic movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood.


73's

Ron

[SEMTTP]

I understand...........guess I was not humerous enough!




Eric


You had me looking though, but looking up Tower base 2 Nome Alaska, did you happen to see the tower they put up and the size of the beacon(light)?? HUMONGOUS!!

Ron, that is exactly what the story is about, absolutly huge tower that covers(litteraly) half the world!!


Eric