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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #70 on: May 23, 2009, 05:31:23 AM »
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That is a huge benefit of living out in the country. After so many years of living in the city, I still remember the first night on the ranch, watching the stars, seeing the Milky Way. Re-started my interest in astronomy at that point. Didn't get far - running (and working) a ranch makes you tired at night! A night sky so dense with stars that finding the Big Dipper was hard at first with so many stars visible.

Best reaction was my son, though. He took the bus from Chicago out to a small town near us. I picked him up about 9 at night, winter, and five miles south of the freeway, I pulled over and told him to get out, I wanted to show him something. When the last car door closed, there was this moment of silence, then from the dark came "Oh, wow!"   ;D
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #71 on: May 23, 2009, 12:55:16 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on May 23, 2009, 04:48:13 AM
My wife thinks north is whatever direction her truck is going at that particular moment!


I think I must've married her sister.   ;D
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #72 on: May 24, 2009, 02:00:46 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on May 23, 2009, 04:48:13 AM
My wife thinks north is whatever direction her truck is going at that particular moment!


Quote from: tt11758 on May 23, 2009, 12:55:16 PM

I think I must've married her sister.   ;D


And I got one of their cousins..

Like I said earlier....my wife's a damn good woman.......but when it comes to directions, she could get lost in a box.
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #73 on: May 24, 2009, 02:17:59 PM »
Quote from: PegLeg45 on May 24, 2009, 02:00:46 PM
And I got one of their cousins..

Like I said earlier....my wife's a damn good woman.......but when it comes to directions, she could get lost in a box.

And there would be one of us standing in all eight corners....!!! ;D ;D

By the way, did anyone replace the cheez whiz?  I ain't been to the store lately...and someone drank all my Glenlivet...
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #74 on: May 24, 2009, 02:31:15 PM »
ok, check this out, I emailed my father about the article and he sent me this link.

http://www.insidegnss.com/node/1484#Baseband_Technologies_Inc_

he says the system will operate properly with only 15 satellites. how does he know this? he did some of the programming on some of these satellites. (he's the smart one in the family) anyway, he says, don't worry, it'll be just fine....
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #75 on: May 24, 2009, 02:34:16 PM »
Quote from: deepwater on May 24, 2009, 02:31:15 PM
ok, check this out, I emailed my father about the article and he sent me this link.

http://www.insidegnss.com/node/1484#Baseband_Technologies_Inc_

he says the system will operate properly with only 15 satellites. how does he know this? he did some of the programming on some of these satellites. (he's the smart one in the family) anyway, he says, don't worry, it'll be just fine....

So I don't need the sextant I made from three pencils and rubber bands? ;D
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #76 on: May 24, 2009, 02:36:48 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on May 24, 2009, 02:34:16 PM
So I don't need the sextant I made from three pencils and rubber bands? ;D

yeah, probably not, but I'd keep it around anyway. for when N. Korea shoots them all out of the sky with their reliable missile program... or satellite rockets... you know...
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #77 on: May 24, 2009, 02:40:38 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on May 24, 2009, 02:34:16 PM
So I don't need the sextant I made from three pencils and rubber bands? ;D

Just store them in the man cave, uh, corner. We might need them later.

As for the cheez-whiz, I was busy at a wedding all day yesterday and didn't have time to go to the store......however, I do have leftover chicken wings, chips, dip and celery......no....scratch the chicken wings.....*burp*


Good for the GPS still working....we might need it to find our way out of the darkest reaches of the cave, er, corner.....   ;D
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #78 on: May 24, 2009, 03:26:38 PM »
 I disappointed about the GPS system, I WANTED to watch these dumb asses try to read a map while texting and applying eye make up.

I got the Cheez whizz, I hope you all like the Smoked Cheddar.  ;D
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #79 on: May 24, 2009, 03:35:58 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on May 24, 2009, 03:26:38 PM
I disappointed about the GPS system, I WANTED to watch these dumb asses try to read a map while texting and applying eye make up.

I got the Cheez whizz, I hope you all like the Smoked Cheddar.  ;D
Yeah, but would you want watch a 2nd Lt. (I mean one of ours) try to call in artillery or air without it? Christ, it would save the tax payers money to just have the platoon play catch with their grenades. :-\
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