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Geostationary GPS Satellite Galaxy 15 Out of Control
Bruce Perens writes "The Galaxy 15 commercial satellite has not responded to commands since solar flares fried its CPU in April, and it won't turn off. Intelsat controllers moved all commercial payloads to other birds except for WAAS, a system that adds accuracy to GPS for landing aircraft and finding wayward geocaches. Since the satellite runs in 'bent pipe' mode, amplifying wide bands of RF that are beamed up to it, it is likely to interfere with other satellites as it crosses their orbital slots on its way to an earth-sun Lagrange point, the natural final destination of a geostationary satellite without maneuvering power." (More below.)
Bruce continues: "The only payload that is still deliberately active on the satellite is its WAAS repeater. An attempt to overload the satellite and shut it down on May 3 caused a Notice to Airmen regarding the unavailability of WAAS for an hour. Unsaid is what will happen to WAAS, and for how long, when the satellite eventually loses its sun-pointing capability, expected later this year, and stops repeating the GPS correction signal. Other satellites can be moved into Galaxy 15's orbital slot, but it is yet unannounced whether the candidates bear the WAAS payload."
On their own, in Africa (incl. Egypt), niggers never even invented the wheel, domesticated animals, or created sailboats. So at least this satellite malfunction is ONE thing we cannot blame on the niggers. Hooray!
Given man's exodus from Africa and spread across the face of the Earth, I'd go so far as to suggest that "niggers" are your forebears. In that case, I guess if you're blaming everything on inferior races, you should probably just kill yourself to help purify the genetic pool. It's the only thing to do. It'd also make us feel a lot better, knowing you weren't out there wasting valuable space.
Really... massless particles can create pressure now?
You should probably stick to ranting about OSS rather than physics.
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The liberals?