Do you think the carriers will willingly, and out of the goodness of their hearts, lower the bill and give money back to you?? How can you expect them to say no to that free revenue?
Over here a given phone gets cheaper the bigger the plan is. And generally every year you can can update your phone for a reduced price, but if you don't change, or you supplies your own phone, the cost of a given plan remains the same. No company in the world would let such easy money go out the door.
I remember seeing a show about the construction of the new building for the Mexican Senate. They build several sub surface levels by drilling deep columns of support, pouring a giant slab with a few holes and excavating the dirt of a level underneath and repeating the process. When they got to the fourth or fifth level down, they realized that the flow of water and silt under the building against the columns had tilted the columns enough that the vector of weight of the upper levels fell outside the base of the column, and they had to wrap the columns with additional concrete and reinforcemente making them way wider on all the levels. If the volume of flow, just 4 to 5 levels down, against just the width of a column, is capable of displacing it so much, imagine the force against something the size and depth of this. And it will vary greatly with depth, until you get to rock, if there is some reachable down there.
Then raise it more. There are lots of places in Mexico City that would be flooded but for the MASSIVE draining system, so build up those sites, while you wait for the new building to fail in any of several amusing ways that have been sugested in other comments.
It would be difficult for several reasons. It requires that the colony have a very reasonable prospect of self-sufficient without the need of relations with the mother planet, that relations being forced for nature, or man is the prime reason ever for trouble.
It means the need of an closed ecology, capable of supplying air, water, food to compensate the inevitable losses to the space, and acomodate the grow of the premises. An closed economy capable of sustaining its inhabitants, with perspectives of grown. It doesnt means thet will be out of contact with the earth, but being capable of sustaining themselves, will put them in a better position with respect to the earth.
If it depends on the Earth for these things for too long a period, (more than 20, 50 or 100 years), the strain on the earth won't be too great, but it will be in the spirit of the immigrants.
Aditionally the costs of seting up a colony in space will be too big whitout an efficient and economic method of getting out of the gravity well (Space elevators being my favorite solution) in earth and in the colony, meaning an very prolonged period to when "the mortgage is paid off". The immigrants eventually will forget the initial costs and only will see the enormous payments that they make. That is a very strong incentive to trouble.
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Do you think the carriers will willingly, and out of the goodness of their hearts, lower the bill and give money back to you?? How can you expect them to say no to that free revenue?
Over here a given phone gets cheaper the bigger the plan is. And generally every year you can can update your phone for a reduced price, but if you don't change, or you supplies your own phone, the cost of a given plan remains the same. No company in the world would let such easy money go out the door.
I remember seeing a show about the construction of the new building for the Mexican Senate. They build several sub surface levels by drilling deep columns of support, pouring a giant slab with a few holes and excavating the dirt of a level underneath and repeating the process. When they got to the fourth or fifth level down, they realized that the flow of water and silt under the building against the columns had tilted the columns enough that the vector of weight of the upper levels fell outside the base of the column, and they had to wrap the columns with additional concrete and reinforcemente making them way wider on all the levels.
If the volume of flow, just 4 to 5 levels down, against just the width of a column, is capable of displacing it so much, imagine the force against something the size and depth of this. And it will vary greatly with depth, until you get to rock, if there is some reachable down there.
Then raise it more. There are lots of places in Mexico City that would be flooded but for the MASSIVE draining system, so build up those sites, while you wait for the new building to fail in any of several amusing ways that have been sugested in other comments.
According to this photo, it can work in single screen mode
http://www.gscreenlaptop.com/assets/images/gScreen-SpaceBook-dual-screen-laptop-002(5).jpg
or in screen and half mode
http://www.gscreenlaptop.com/assets/images/gScreen-SpaceBook-dual-screen-laptop-002(7).jpg
and I think that Samsung or someone made a portable screen like you ask for, even connectable by usb
It would be difficult for several reasons. It requires that the colony have a very reasonable prospect of self-sufficient without the need of relations with the mother planet, that relations being forced for nature, or man is the prime reason ever for trouble.
It means the need of an closed ecology, capable of supplying air, water, food to compensate the inevitable losses to the space, and acomodate the grow of the premises. An closed economy capable of sustaining its inhabitants, with perspectives of grown. It doesnt means thet will be out of contact with the earth, but being capable of sustaining themselves, will put them in a better position with respect to the earth.
If it depends on the Earth for these things for too long a period, (more than 20, 50 or 100 years), the strain on the earth won't be too great, but it will be in the spirit of the immigrants.
Aditionally the costs of seting up a colony in space will be too big whitout an efficient and economic method of getting out of the gravity well (Space elevators being my favorite solution) in earth and in the colony, meaning an very prolonged period to when "the mortgage is paid off". The immigrants eventually will forget the initial costs and only will see the enormous payments that they make. That is a very strong incentive to trouble.