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Europe Building Their Own GPS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the now-to-find-the-needle-in-the-political-haystack dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BBC News is reporting that Europe is planning to build their own satellite-navigation network that will be backward and forward compatible. There's going to be 5 levels ranging from free (1m accuracy) to commercial (1cm accuracy)! Provision is also being made for a search and rescue mode where a signal can be sent to confirm that help is on the way. The system will supposedly even work with existing US network after upgrades to the network."

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  1. Someone wants to be the only kid with cool toys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    After many years of trying to convince europe its unnecessary, the US still reserves the right to shoot the satellites down if it wants http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vie wArticle&code=20041026&articleId=557

  2. very old news by Phil246 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We've known about this for at least a year...
    do people not remember the bush administration threatening to use anti-satellite weapons unless europe gave the US the power to interfere with it, jam the satellites and/or switch them off or to a lower resolution mode for certain areas of the globe which they were fighting in?

  3. Re:please by nnnneedles · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "We could unleash our nuclear arsenal and flatten Europe."

    Well, your post (and others) actually makes it very clear that americans are still scary people and that we should build our own positioning system.

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