And yes thank god we are cutting funding to those pesky satellites. Seems
we can't afford them anymore. But fortunately other countries are filling
our gap slow but surely.
There was an article this month in GNSS about the funding cuts.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:11 PM, J. Forste
The US, foolishly IMO, has killed LORAN-C and is killing WWVB. Hence my
comment. Essentially, GPS is soon going to be the sole source of a
standard of time interval.
It is going to take a disaster of some kind to return sanity.
-John
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> John writes:
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>> Seems like a good reason to
John writes:
> Seems like a good reason to have LORAN-C or some other backup/sanity check.
What LORAN? I thought the U.S. had shut down all LORAN transmissions
in order to enhance the vulnerability of navigation systems in the
U.S. (?).
--
Anthony
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Seems like a good reason to have LORAN-C or some other backup/sanity check.
-John
> In case anyone here hasn't seen this article:
>
> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/google-spanner/all/
>
> Google is using GPS and atomic time synchronization across its data
> cente
In case anyone here hasn't seen this article:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/google-spanner/all/
Google is using GPS and atomic time synchronization across its data
centers to ensure database consistency in innovative ways. Apparently
there's a paper out on the system now but I have