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	2008-05-13 - Weird News Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer Texting BFF More Expensive Than Getting Data From Space Telescope

London, UK (AHN) -- A British space scientist has found that it is much more costly to send a message by cell phone than to transmit data from the Hubble space telescope to Earth. Dr. Nigel Bannister from the University of Leicester in England calculated that one megabyte of SMS texting costs $730.63 to transmit based on U.K. rates. Hubble transmissions cost between $17.27 to $165 per megabyte based on NASA data. One megabyte of SMS consists of 7,490 text messages each containing 160 characters. Bannister used the calculation for the UK's Channel 4 Dispatches program entitled "The Mobile Phone Rip-Off." "Hubble is by no means a cheap mission - but the mobile phone text costs were pretty astronomical!" Cellular-news.com quoted Bannister as saying. Weird news story link: Just copy and paste the following code into your page. <a href="http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2008-05-13/101016340.html">Texting BFF More Expensive Than Getting Data From Space Telescope</a> War is Coming Home. Get ready to test your knowledge in the single-player online version of America's Favorite Quiz Show.     More Weird News From 2008-05-13 The day's offbeat stories from around the world. • British Release Reports Of 10 Years Of UFO Sightings • Texting BFF More Expensive Than Getting Data From Space Telescope • Man Puts Seatbelts On Beer, Not 5-Year Old Child • Angry Briton Saws Car In Half To Dispute Illegal Parking Charge • Barbie Versus Bratz In Doll Copyright Battle At California Court • Teen Sneaks Into Girlfriend's Room, Runs Into Girl's Father   « Current Weird News Stories

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