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Delta 2 Rocket Launches 50th GPS Satellite
wetshoe writes "This CNN article reports that 'the 50th U.S. Global Positioning Satellite has lifted off aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket.' It was sent into space to replace an aging GPS satellite. One more reason why geocaching is so much fun."
The launches you should worry about are the launches they don't announce! But I guess it's no fun being paranoid if you can't point to actual new items that "justify" your paranoia!
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No, i wonder about the one's we do know about...much easier to sneak a toy or two into space. ;-)
damn, this foil is itchy.
Have you ever thought that conspiracy theories are a conspiracy to make you buy tin foil? I'd worry about why it itches!
We have our moments.
Yeah well how about using wget and posting on slashdot like a real man.
I hope you guys don't call yourselves geeks.
what? if there is any one appropriate physical activity appropriate for geeks, it is geocaching.
if there is any one appropriate physical activity appropriate for geeks
stop right there; short circuit the rest of the statement.
Geocaching is fun because they replace old GPS satellites with new ones? wtf?
I thought that was a strange comment myself, but then considered that perhaps they have no real life or friends. Looking forward to the next satellite replacement might be what gets this person through the day.
yay! new satellite!
I think he just hid his cache in the satellite before it went up. Darn, that is going to be hard to get.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
Why not set them for a collision course with the sun?
Obviously spoken by a person with a firm grasp of orbital mechanics and orbital energy levels.