The human race must be getting pretty bored. Case in point: a man climbs the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, just to set the record for world’s highest cell phone call. While he was up there he figured he’d set the record for highest text message as well.

While I’ll admit that it is pretty impressive that he can get cell phone service up there, who the hell is going to want to use their cellphone (they have other radios and GPS devices for emergencies obviously) when it’s -30 degrees!?

It’s actually not even all that impressive when you read that China set up a mobile base station to a straight-shot view of the North Ridge to make everything work. Well yeah, my cellphone would probably finally get service in a basement if someone pointed a service tower at it as well.

Of course Motorola sponsored this stunt and here’s my favorite blurb:

“Batteries for the Motorola handset he used were taped to his body to ensure they stayed at a high enough temperature to power the phone.”

To paraphrase Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) in Jurassic Park – we’re becoming so preoccupied with whether or not we can do something, we don’t stop to think if we should.