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Re: USAF smartphone celestial patent
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2020 Oct 19, 04:53 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2020 Oct 19, 04:53 -0400
Here’s a direct link to the description of the unit,
I need one of these! <—a joke
On Oct 18, 2020, at 19:15, Frank Reed <NoReply_FrankReed@fer3.com> wrote:Here's an "article" about a patent for a smartphone celestial navigation accessory. Bear in mind that the source is trying to help market US govt patents, so this is not a news source. They do provide a link to the patent. What have they patented? Anything??
As long as I'm here, si.edu has a nice article about R2-D2. That was the nickname for the celestial turret in the SR-71. It was a robot that sat behind the cockpit, so... R2-D2. Get it?
Frank Reed
