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Re: GPS vunerable? Long live celestial nav!
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2007 Jan 20, 16:02 -0800
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2007 Jan 20, 16:02 -0800
Dan: While it is delicious to contemplate that our archaic skills could come to the fore again, I rather suspect taking out even one (much less all) of the GPS satellites would be regarded as an act of war. At which point one might ask whether one could still take sights through all the clouds of radioactive fallout.... Lu Abel Dan Allen wrote: > This past week China shot a missile up into space that destroyed one > of their own satellites. > > For just one of at least 882 articles on this story, see > > http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=7535ab77-00b3-4c3d- > a0a2-e52057e0e722&k=60363 > > So what will keep an enemy of the American GPS system from doing this > sometime in the future to the GPS satellites? > > Moral of the story: keep those celestial navigation skills going! > > Dan > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
