EU Presses Ahead With Galileo GPS System

philkerr writes "The BBC is reporting that European transport ministers have agreed to the 2008 deployment of the European controlled GPS system. Costing 2.1 billion euros and creating 150,000 jobs. Is this just a pork-barrel project, or something Europe really needs to break the reliance on U.S. space technology? This was discussed on Slashdot in June when the U.S. and EU reached an agreement on its deployment."

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Re:would USA rely on French, or Estonian GPS syste

[lightknight]

Yeah, sure. Look, have you seen the kind of products coming out of China lately? They'd have to fire off 10 nukes, just so one of them could make it across the Pacific (well, Polar Ice cap). Hell, factor out a targetting system like GPS, and on a good day, the nuke would come within a couple miles of its target. And a nuke hitting the Atlantic instead of the White House will have little effect (water dissipates radiation rather quickly, and acts as a wonderful dampening agent). And you can be sure, that while their nukes may miss, ours won't.

By the time China gets a man on the moon or figures out how to identify a target by sight, nuclear fusion and orbital lasers will be achieved, making the discussion moot.

What a joke

[N8F8]

Want a great army? Stary by not forcing citizens to join. Then give them a decent budget. Right now the combined EU can't even float a navy. No functional nuclear subs and few functional carriers.

Sounds good to me.

[tjstork]

Let Brussels do its own security and get US troops out of NATO. Instead of constantly trying to make the French happy, form a new military alliance consisting of Russia, Great Britian, and probably Poland. By the way, we'll sell Poland the h-bomb.