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The G-7 oligarchs are exporting jobs to third world countries faster than free guns at a prison break - A reader
GPS fears groundless
THE US AIR FORCE has rubbished fears that its GPS system is going to collapse in a few years because of launch delays.
According to the AP, the Air Force was responding to a government report which worried that the system was going to collapse because GPS satellites were not being replaced fast enough. But the Air Force says it has adequate resources to keep the navigation system up.
Tim Lewallen, deputy director of GPS at Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, said that while there was some risk that service could degrade it was small because there is shedloads of spare capacity in the system. µ
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The airforce is lying - the US Government accountability office report says that through 2010 and 2011 there is an 80-85% chance (depending on the month) that there will be 24 satellites in operation.
The committed level of service is 24 satellites with 95% reliability - so they're going to violate that already.
Also, there are currently 31-32 operational satellites depending on maintenance and maneuvering cycles. This means we are *ASSURED* to have *FAR WORSE* satellite availability in the future.
Granted beggars can't be choosers, but our lab is working hard towards using the Russian GLONASS system which is ascendent rather than collapsing (it collapsed in '01, but is much better now).
The airforce is lying.
Either way, they are forced to lie to us. Its kind of how it works these days. They can't upright admit they screwed up so they feed AP a line of BS about how they can reactivate 3 old satellites. (which I don't doubt, but at what cost and effectiveness?)
So, With all the extra space debris from two satellites that impacted each other, Who is to say what could happen now? ( http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/11iridium/ )
RE: "The Air Force is lying"
About UFOs too.