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Conj of Planets and GPS
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 2000 May 09, 12:42 PM
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 2000 May 09, 12:42 PM
1) Conjunction of Planets: Wonder if any of you have read the book, "5/5/2000" by Richard Noone. The basic idea is that the planets aligning on 5/5/2000 would cause massive disruption of the ice caps of Anartica causing a "polar shift" and unless you were at a special secret pivot point you would would be killed. This whole thing would usher in a new age where what was left of the world and civilization would have to start over again. 2) Second topic: New GPS signal. Somewhere on the internet a couple of years ago I got the exact lat and long of my house from a survey of the post office. My GPS unit would drift around, but never be a right on match to the post office. Now with the new GPS signal, I am within 0.01' of the post office's position. Moveover, the GPS readout does not drift around like it use to. 3) Third: Read some books about WWII and the Battle of Midway Island. Too bad we didn't have a GPS system then. A lot of lives could have been saved. --- Gordon -- ,,, (. .) +-------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-----------------------+ | Gordon Talge WB6YKK e-mail: gtalge@pe.net | | __ QTH: Loma Linda, CA | | / / __ _ _ _ _ __ __ | | (o- Debian / GNU / / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / | | //\ /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ | | v_/_ The Choice of the GNU Generation | | .oooO | | - E Aho Laula - ( ) Oooo. - Wider is Better - | + -----------------------\ (---( )-------------------------+ \_) ) / (_/