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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.
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?
This is great news. Here's hoping for a bright and successful future for their new program!
I'd probably avoid asking Europe for advice on navigation systems for a few years until they work things out...
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
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.
So what... Texas is the Québec of the USA?
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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*
That's hilarious ... I've been saying exactly that for years.
Yeah but that whole independence thing tends to stop at the state level.
I.e. rephrase as follows... ...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.
The question for you in Austin or wherever is this:
Do you want millions of Houstonians telling you how to live, through state legislation, or do you want your county's citizens to decide how you do things there in Travis, and we can do it our way in Harris?
At least, that's what an Aggie told me ;)
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?
It depends. People in every state likely have the same needs and desires when it comes to things like education, healthcare, and abortion, or freedoms like who they can marry. It's silly to have to drive across a state line to address these needs or desires. If y'all want to make the steer the state animal or drive 85 on your roads, have at it. States' rights are a vestige of 18th century America, in my opinion, and today are used more for political purposes than ensuring freedom and keeping the Union viable.
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While both Connecticut and Texas are relatively rich states and contribute more to the federal treasury than they take, people in Connecticut contribute about 3x as much toward the treasury compared with Texans... Only Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey pay more into the treasury per capita versus what they take out. That's part of the reason the people in NJ were so upset when congress initially balked at Sandy relief.
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I thought that the description of Connecticut above was actually that of Vermont.
Wouldn't it be the other way? Since the state capitol is in Austin, wouldn't the question for those in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Armadillo or wherever be - Do you want millions of Austinians telling you how to do things, or do you want to arrange it locally in Houston, Dallas, et al?
On a different note, it's interesting how this thread had been hijacked. Unlike the satellite
No. They are a bunch of upstarts that broke away fro Mexico. And if we cut off the pipeline of federal subsidies, they'll just go back.
Have gnu, will travel.
Damned right! Look at all that technology they stole from that great American, Wernher von Braun.
Have gnu, will travel.
People in every state likely have the same needs and desires when it comes to things like... abortion
Look, either they're fundamentalist nuts or brainwashed Obama-supporters. While I'll admit that I don't know which are worse, they still aren't exactly the same thing. :)
While both Connecticut and Texas are relatively rich states and contribute more to the federal treasury than they take,
Only Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey pay more into the treasury per capita versus what they take out.
Mildly confused. Connecticut and Texas contribute more to the treasury than they take, but not per capita..?
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
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.
LOL, that would be a trick, wouldn't it?
No, I meant that both Connecticut and Texas pay more than they take, but if you are from Connecticut this imbalance is much larger than if you are from Texas. I think it's like $6000 per capita in Connecticut and in the $2000 range for a Texan.
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Thanks for clearing that up ;)
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
"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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