My friends and I have been deriving much amusement from the comms issues. We can fly people around the moon, talk with them, send back high res video, but talk to the boat that’s close enough to swim to? Forget about it!

Note: next time, pack a walkie talkie. ;-)

No joke, VHF has been saving sailors' lives for a long time now.

They missed the chance to reply "Main screen turn on."

Siri turn on main screen

What you say?

Just like in the year 3000, we will still ask "Can you hear me?" in video meetings.

And the printer will be perpetually broken

I can see your comment, can you see mine?

"Can you see my screen?"

grrr

i was thinking maybe astronauts can be disoriented when splashing down and that's why they figured they should ask if the right buttons were being pushed?

This is the same mission where the commander radioed to Houston, “I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working”.

Cellphone coverage notoriously flaky in the Pacific.

Umm it's a satellite phone.

I give you Apollo 16:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuv6TVv0r44

...and informing them which button was the PTT button. She had to say it, but it'd be hard not to react to that.

It’s to the right of SCE to AUX…

Good thing they have redundant systems.