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Navigation Satellites Over Europe
Snags writes "It looks like Europe is getting its own equivalent to WAAS (a set of ground stations and geostationary satellites which relay information to help GPS accuracy in the US). The EGNOS system system is having a base station inaugurated in Langen, Germany this week. The system augments signals from GPS and Russia's Glonass to provide 2-meter accuracy in Europe. This is the first stage of the Galileo system reported earlier, and I'm sure these satellites and base stations will perform the same function once the Galileo constellation is flying."
after big brother, now also little brother will be watching us...
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Satellite navigation is a weapon of mass destruction. Let's bomb them now!
Just get a job at the CIA. They'll take care of the details like training you and slipping you into the country.
The next stage is to integrate components of the Eienstein system to take into account the distortion of space between signal tranmittance and reception.
Ask me about repetitive DNA
Trust me when I say. This has NOTHING to do with being an American. We are APPAULED by 100% of the shit that is going on here in office. The opposition here in the US is HUGE,..
61% still have a linking for that cokehead turned emperor.
I need to get the hell off this continent.
As a native Central American, I'm insulted. Our part of the continent still rocks! Just cuz you stole the name doesn't mean you annexed us;-) Btw, I'm moving back there next week. Really.
US would like to say thanks and has asked the Middle East & Far East Asia to install similar systems, to make it easier and cheaper in case we need to LIBERATE THE HECK OUT OF ANOTHER COUNTRY
Hello my sane-minded American friend, I too am attempting to effect an escape from the U.K. into Europe. (I don't enjoy my country following the Bush administration round like a dog on heat).
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Now I haven't quite formulated a plan for escape yet but needless to say, I hope to use GPS for navigation en route.
Rumour has it that this may have been tried before, there is even talk of a tunnel having been built between the U.K and Europe!
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
knowing US quality, (I suffer it every day at work) they certainly will not use US components.