On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net wrote:
Actually the Russian space agency provides this service at lower cost and
greater accuracy (because it has not been deliberately dumbed
down by the generals).
Don't get too confused on this. GPS is a strategic
At 11:05 AM -0500 2/4/10, Constance Warner wrote:
[snippage]
P.S.: And if you want to continue to use GPS, you might drop a note
to your Congressperson about funding for NASA. GPS depends on a set
of aging satellites and, AFAIK, there are no replacements in the
pipeline.
The GPS system
Then write your congressperson about the GPS system in general. And
NASA is the main agency in the satellite business (cf. the weather
satellites we all depend on) and could well launch the replacements
for GPS, if any.
On Feb 5, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Roger D. Parish wrote:
At 11:05 AM -0500
On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Constance Warner wrote:
Then write your congressperson about the GPS system in general. And
NASA is the main agency in the satellite business (cf. the weather
satellites we all depend on) and could well launch the replacements
for GPS, if any.
Actually the
Actually, launching stuff on cut-rate vehicles has its perils.
My brother worked for ten years on a project that got launched on a
cut-rate, non-NASA launch vehicle--there was political pressure to
show cost savings at the time.
You guessed it: straight into the Pacific; straight to the
Actually the Russian space agency provides this service at lower cost and
greater accuracy (because it has not been deliberately dumbed
down by the generals).
Don't get too confused on this. GPS is a strategic necessity. Or something
like it is. The US doesn't depend on the Russians for
A new type of human, thanks to the digital age? Well, not exactly.
I agree that cellphones have made a HUGE difference in the third
world. A Bangladeshi peasant can now check market prices for the
agricultural products he/she is raising, so he/she can no longer be
cheated by the
On Feb 4, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Constance Warner wrote:
But a whole new type of human, which was what the program claimed?
I don't think so.
How about this guy...
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