On: Our Fate Is in the Stars

[tomp]

Wishes make profit. What is the use of an iPhone beyond satisfying people's wishes? Yet Apple is a $1bn company.

[coldtea → tomp]

Products that fulfill wishes make profit.

Wishes by themselves don't make anything.

In other words, wishing it so doesn't make it so. It takes a lot of further action on top of the wishing.

[PeterisP → tomp]

Many people are willing to pay $1000 to satisfy their iPhone wishes. Not many people are willing to pay $1000 so that "we" (i.e. someone else) could be in the stars.

[idlewords → tomp]

And yet the iPhone doesn't work on the Moon. Explain that!

[TeMPOraL → idlewords]

[citation needed]

I think there's a good chance it would boot, especially while still within the crew compartment of the lander.