No satellite in the sky is going to uproot the three foot long survey pins
knocked into the ground around our house property :-)
jh
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Beware of Geeks... Part Two
> Imagine now a space war with China or whomever... all GPS satellites
> blown out of the sky.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 1/19/2012 2:26 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> Everybody is afraid of airplanes falling out of the sky from this, but
>> it's actually even more critical in two different areas:
>>
>> 1.Telecommunications. All of our synchronous networks are carefully
>> timed. The vast majority of the networks are times off of GPS signals.
>> Interference caused drift will bring a network down hard. Kiss your
>> telephones (and cellphones) goodbye when this happens.
>>
>> 2.Surveying. There are legal implications to this which would easily
>> trump that 2.9 Billion dollar investment. I can't imagine what
>> nightmares hide behind that curtain.
>>
>> AG
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