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Launch of India's First Navigation Satellite Successful
An anonymous reader writes "India's first dedicated navigation satellite, the IRNSS-1A, developed by the Indian Space Research Organization, was successfully put in orbit on Monday night. The launch vehicle, PSLV-C22, bearing the 1,425-kg navigation satellite, blasted off the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center here at the scheduled lift-off time of 11.41 p.m."
The satellite is the first of seven that will eventually provide a regional equivalent of GPS under complete Indian control.
Hideki!
Is India's space navigation system sufficiently similar(in terms of frequencies, antenna demands, etc.) that it will be relatively easy to shoehorn into navigation chipsets along with GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, or is it enough of an oddball in some way, either technologically or administratively(a more hardass version of the old GPS civilian precision reduction that the US used to use or occassionally threaten to use), that this is basically irrelevant for everybody who isn't Indian military?
and a better society, these people will move to India now, right? Oh, sorry, asking questions on slashdot is the sign of a nutcase now.
I submit David Hasselhoff is the AntiChrist
And I have the proof
How can one explain the phenomenal global success of one of this country's least talented individuals? There are only three ways.
* Mr. Hasselhoff actually is talented, but this goes unnoticed in his own country.
* Mr. Hasselhoff has sold his soul to Satan in return for global success.
* David Hasselhoff is the AntiChrist.
I vote for the latter -- and perhaps, after seeing the facts involved, the rest of the world will agree.
The Facts First, the obvious. Add a little beard and a couple of horns -- David Hasselhoff looks like the Devil, doesn't he? And the letters in his name can be rearranged to spell
fad of devil's hash.
What does this mean? Well, Baywatch is David's fad. David is the devil. The Hash is what makes Knight Rider popular in Amsterdam.
(I was actually hoping to make the letters in his name spell out he is of the devil, which would be possible if his middle name was "Ethesis," which it might be. I'm sure his publicist would hide such a middle name if it were true.)
Second -- and most importantly -- David Hasselhoff and his television series were foretold in the Bible. Biblical scholars worldwide may quibble over interpretations, but they all agree on this. For a few telling examples let's skip to the end of the Bible. If any book of the Bible will tell us who the AntiChrist is, it's the Revelation of Saint John, which basically describes the AntiChrist and the Armageddon He causes. I'll just give you the verse, and the current theological interpretation of that verse.
Who is the Beast?
Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns The Beast, of course, is David Hasselhoff. The Heads are His separate television incarnations. Young and the Restless, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Knight Rider, Terror at London Bridge, Ring of the Musketeers, Baywatch and Baywatch Nights.
The ten horns represent His musical releases: Crazy For You, David, David Hasselhoff, Do You Love Me?, Du, Everybody Sunshine, I Believe, Looking For Freedom, Night Lover and Night Rockers.
Not only does Mitch The Lifeguard literally "rise out of the sea" on Baywatch, but David's musical career has mostly occurred in Europe, a metaphoric rise to fame from across the sea.
Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. Of course, this is a reference to his third head: Knight of the Phoenix, the first episode of Knight Rider. In this episode, "Michael Long, a policeman, is shot and left for dead. The shot is deflected by a plate in his head, but ruins his face. He is saved and his face reconstructed. He is reluctant, but agrees to use K.I.T.T. to help the Foundation for Law and Government fight criminals who are 'beyond the reach of the law'. " Knight Rider has been shown in 82 countries.
Rev 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. The following blasphemies are actual quotes from David Hasselhoff -- I read these while he was 42 years old.
"I'm good-looking, and I make a lot of money."
"There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me."
"I'm six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well!"
"Before long, I'll have my own channel -- I'll be like Barney."
"(Baywatch) is responsible for a lot of world peace." which the Hoff said at the Bollywood Oscars. Don't believe me? Read the original article!
And here's a blasphemy that came from David's recent (Feb 2004) visit to the Berlin Wall museum. I couldn't have made something this great up by myself. He was upset that the museum didn't spend more tim
And have they tried rebooting?
This is great news. Here's hoping for a bright and successful future for their new program!
Is the tech support for this satellite in Europe?
have an imperceptible accent and put you on hold for twenty minutes before telling you to try rebooting the car?
as with everything that comes out with these Asian Ni66ers.
When I was in engineering, attending most of my classes was like being an involuntary exchange student in India. In several courses I was the only citizen in the room. Research labs were almost entirely divided along racial/national lines - there was the Indian lab, the Chinese lab, and the Mexican nationals lab. Out of perhaps 100-odd graduate students, roughly four might have been American citizens in that particular department.
I found that where the students are imported, the ethics are too. Cheating was called 'competition' and 'inevitable.' Plagiarism was a 'cultural practice' and a 'perceptual construct' that required sensitivity. "What does it matter to you?" some professors asked when I pointed out just how demoralizing it was to work in such an environment. Two professors spoke out (one against plagiarism on course papers, the other on cheating in an exam). In both cases the (numerous) grades were allowed to stand (!!!) and in both cases the professors eventually wound up teaching somewhere else. I have other horror stories - but don't take MY word for it, ask Tom Matrka about his engineering department at Ohio University (or look up "Ohio University"+plagiarism+scandal online).
As for a shortage of engineers, one of my lecture classes had over 100 graduate students each semester. I routinely run into engineers who were involuntarily "retired" in their 40s or early 50s. We have such a large surplus of engineers that employers can readily discriminate on the basis of age or whatever else they choose.
I don't recommend engineering grad school or most engineering careers - the politics are far more vicious than one would imagine (more so than in the academic humanities and social sciences), and both career and school contexts are too susceptible to being gamed by outside interests.
...it does the needful.
iphone 5 for one.. here's a list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Smartphones_using_GLONASS_Navigation
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
India 1, Russia 0.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
We are Texans, and there's a spread shitload of us.
So the question for you in Connecticut or wherever is this:
Do you want millions of Texans telling you how to live , through federal legislation, or do you want your state's citizens to decide how you do things there in Connecticut, and we can do it our way in Texas?
You are somewhere on the surface of a sphere 20121.2km from satellite #1
Although they've promised a firmware upgrade that will show you as being somewhere on the circle that represents the intersection of that sphere and the Earth's surface.
while "democratic" first world countires are reverting to totalitarianism. As the old third world wealth and world power grows its going to be interesting how the "old" first woirld citizen react to this when their applying for the "tech support" jobs when the roles are reversed.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Is dirt !!
Take that Russia!
India 1 Russia -3
An Aggie, eh? I happen to be typing this on a computer owned by the Texas A&M System. I'd much prefer to let the Austinites
:)
have their coed public restrooms in Austin, and we can keep our "Men's Room" signs up. Tomorrow, I'll be shooting fireworks, which
are illegal in many parts of the state. I happen to be a pyro geek, spending hundreds of dollars and many hours preparing my show.
As I enjoy the beautiful chemistry in the sky, I'll be glad that Houston politicians can't stop me. They can do it their way in their city.
> and there'll be many in Houston, Dallas, etc. who would absolutely love it if Austin and others were controlled top-down by a more politically aligned state.
Not so much that I've seen. We may joke about the tea sips and their hippy ways, but we're glad to let them be them, in Austin.
Besides, if Austin is to their liking, fewer of them will come here to College Station.
> People in every state likely have the same needs and desires when it comes to things like education, healthcare, and abortion, or freedoms
Connecticut is one of only four states with a law specifically allowing abortion, explicitly saying your GF has the right to murder your child.
Texas is currently passing a law saying that more than five months into a pregancy, abortion is illegal. So the citizens of the different
states don't have the same desires in terms of abortion, for sure.
Healthcare? Show me a Texan who desires Obamacare and I'll show you an Austinite, who probably came from California (meaning they're not a real Texan).
Maybe that's a bad example, because in the last poll, 56% of DEMOCRATS nationwide said Obamcare is unconstitutional.
Education? Some local school boards in Texas, at the behest of the parents in the community, teach that the Genesis story may
have hints of how the universe was actually created.* Would people in San Francisco desire that to be taught?
* and interestingly, every new scientific find is consistent with the idea that the old testament is indeed based on actual events,
in the same way that Saint Nick the Christmas character is based on a real guy.
like, they were the first big users of the digit system (inventors even), the '0', the sine, the cosine, they built analog computers (orrerys), spherical geometry, some had a solar centric orbital model centuries before copernicus, and on and on and on. they had some very interesting astronomical observatories built by their government, which of course all went to pot once the british empire invaded and took over.
people are just fucking stupid bigots. india was ahead of the world for a long time in a lot of tech, there is absolutely no reason to believe they cant be again.
"If you wish to keep slaves, you must have all kinds of guards. The cheapest way to have guards is to have the slaves pay taxes to finance their own guards. To fool the slaves, you tell them that they are not slaves and that they have Freedom. You tell them they need Law and Order to protect them against bad slaves. Then you tell them to elect a Government. Give them Freedom to vote and they will vote for their own guards and pay their salary. They will then believe they are Free persons. Then give them money to earn, count and spend and they will be too busy to notice the slavery they are in." --Alexander Warbucks
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