Via Yahoo News… and I’d be willing to bet funded by a Cell phone company who can’t “hear me now”. :cough cough: AT&T your service sucks :cough:

Researchers are saying the sun is to blame for dropped calls … but they aren’t quite sure how. Well IMHO if you don’t know how the heck it’s doing it … how the heck can you be sure it’s the fricking culprit? So it appears that “science” is a-ok with blaming the one constant because they don’t have any better explanation. I have a good explanation … how about corporate greed, lack of towers put up to properly cover the area? Maybe?

Cell phone users frustrated by a high incidence of dropped calls this summer can blame the sun for at least some of their lost signals. According to a new research study slated for publication in the next issue of the Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), solar flares cause some of the annoying conversation breakers.

Led by Queens University mathematics professor Dr. David Thomson, the study concludes that many of the dropped connections — which in the past were attributed to atmospheric disturbances and other terrestrial phenomena — are actually being caused by solar disturbances on the surface of the sun.

Research Blames the Sun for Dropped Calls – Yahoo! News