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Subject: Re: Non-electronic use of GPS!
From: George Huxtable (george@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 14:41:38 EDT
Jared Sherman suggested-
>George, your comments about GPS simply hit me the right way this morning.
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>Perhaps if we (well, US taxpayers at least) were to suggest to our DoD
>that they make the GPS satellites larger and shinier, or tether large
>reflectors to them, then we could use the GPS satellites themselves as
>heavenly bodies that moved at great speed, presenting the opportunity to
>take sights directly off the GPS satellites, allowing them to be used for
>manual celestial navigation!
>
>Sounds like a classic raison d'etre for a new goverment program, to launch
>a new generation of satellites that would have "optical fialure mode
>redundancy support" added to them.<G>
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Great idea, Jared, but just think of making those parallax corrections for
such close objects. Parallax for the Moon is difficult enough...
George.
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George Huxtable, 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
Tel. 01865 820222 or (int.) +44 1865 820222.
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