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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.
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.