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Friday, March 23, 2012

New Trees


If your driving along and see a giant tree, it is not some super fertilizer used to grow this giant. It is a cell phone tree.
In order for us to communicate over cell phones, it is necessary to have a new type of telephone pole called a cell phone tower placed at proper intervals along the highways and byways. The density of these towers is directly proportional to the human population density. This mathematical principle, called "cell tower proliferation", is a new subject for urban ecologists. Unlike unsightly telephone poles spanned by wires, cell phone towers are solitary structures. Cell phone towers transmit radio waves and must be placed above ground. Wireless cell phones send and received messages using radio frequency energy. Directional antennas on the towers divide a geographical area into regions of service called "cells". Different cell phone carriers use separate antennas on the same tower. Rather than have obtrusive towers cluttering the cities and countryside, they are now being disguised in many clever ways. Some of these forms include trees (as pictured above), gas station signs, boulders and even church steeples.

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