-------- Chris Howard writes: > No GPS probably means cesium on the road grader?
There are perfectly good optical gyros for that kind of job, most expensive planes already have them, and space qualifying them is not going to be that different from their current qualifications. Random press-release: https://investor.emcore.com/news-releases/news-release-details/emcore-awarded-41-million-supplemental-contract-raytheon That said, colonizing any planet, it would make a lot of sense to install some kind of high frequency hyberbolic transmitter coverage with a bidirectional data-channel, as a safety-of-life capability for time, position, alerts, space-weather etc. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com -- To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-le...@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there.