EU and US Agree on Galileo

An anonymous reader writes "The EU and USA have reached an agreement over the Galileo satellite positioning system, ending several years of negotiations." We had some good Galileo information in a story last month.

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More reasons

[Anonymous Coward]

to add more layers of foil to your hats folks!

Re:More reasons

[penguinoid]

And remember that tin foil makes you more easily detectible by radar. To be really safe, you should use a tin foil hat that has sharp angles instead of a smooth curve.

Galileo Anniversary

[Citizen of Earth]

My Despair, Inc. calendar indicates that today is an auspicious anniversary date for Galileo:

"Galileo recants absurd theory about the Earth revolving around the sun. (June 22, 1633)"

I guess the Vatican used it influence to get Galileo to revolve around the Earth!

Re:Why duplication?

[Keebler71]

Why do you need a GPS to surrender?
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Re:Its about time

[pbox]

"Under the terms of the agreement, the two sides agreed on key points including:

• a common signal structure for so-called "open" services, and a suitable signal structure for the Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS).
• a process allowing improvements, either jointly or individually, of the baseline signal structures in order to further improve performances.
• confirmation of inter-operable time and standards to facilitate the joint use of GPS and Galileo."

Now I am 100% sure that the above in plain Engrish just says: US is happy announce that they already have the technology to effectively suppress and/or interfere with the Galileo signals, so now these Franch bastard can proceed.

Re:Its about time

[Anonymous Coward]

And are they using the metric system?

Re:Why duplication?

[SpaceLifeForm]

So you can make sure you're really in France!