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UPDATE 2-EU launches Galileo satellite, challenging U.S.
Reuters ^
| Wed Dec 28, 2005 09:19 AM ET
| By Richard Balmforth
Posted on 12/28/2005 11:57:41 AM PST by Jordi
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To: mtbopfuyn
The system will be worldwide.
To: jveritas
Never said Europe is way ahead in space technology. Just said that now (2005/06 ,not 1969) the US aren't way ahead. Just compare
present space activities, neither history nor programs.
If it's annoying for you, it's not my fault.
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posted on
12/28/2005 12:45:28 PM PST
by
Jordi
("I prefer the heaven for the climate , the hell for the company")
To: Jordi
You seems more French than German to me in the way you use this twisted logic. It is a joke to compare your European space program to ours. Name one major space technology invented by the European space program.
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posted on
12/28/2005 12:51:20 PM PST
by
jveritas
(The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
To: GunnyHartman
Don't forget the Huygens faux-pas. They (ESA) turned off one of the real time data channels from the Cassini relay as
the probe descended on to Titan.
I don't remember if Cassini buffered any of it.
To: toadthesecond
The question then, assuming it works, is how much is a Galileo receiver compared to a GPS one?
To: Pondman88
I think I read on spacedaily.com that it's already pushed back two years for commercial availability.
OTOH, the Russians finally got around to putting up three more of their GLONASS birds.
To: Red Badger
They couldn't find their butts in the dark with two hands, a flashlight and a map.............
-- and written instructions from the Gay Rights League.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:09:47 PM PST
by
Fatuncle
(Were I not ignorant, I would not be here to learn things from you.)
To: Jordi
UPDATE 2-EU launches Galileo satellite, challenging U.S.
Sure.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:13:17 PM PST
by
toddlintown
(Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
To: tarepeter
In a related story, after the ESA grudgingly admitted Red China's involvement in it's development, the Galileo satellite mysteriously disappeared from radar shortly after achieving its orbital destination.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:13:31 PM PST
by
GunnyHartman
(Allah is allah outta virgins.)
To: jveritas
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:13:49 PM PST
by
Jordi
("I prefer the heaven for the climate , the hell for the company")
To: Jordi
Thanks for that link to the CERN site where they claim they invented the World Wide Web.
Interested, I clicked on the first link in their article (World Wide Web) only to discover that the link doesn't work!
LOL! They invented the World Wide Web, but don't know how it works. Très European, no?
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:23:29 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
The page is from 1995. You can find newer ones. Or do I have to do all the job??
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:28:37 PM PST
by
Jordi
("I prefer the heaven for the climate , the hell for the company")
To: Jordi
The ion engine is still a concept on paper thus it is not an invention until we have a real one. This concept was first introduced in the US many years ago and I bet you that if it will become a real thing it will be first built here in the US and not anywhere else. Regarding the Internet, it was used first by the US military in the 60's and came into limited civilian use in the 80's and it was not made world wide until the US made it so in the early 90's. Anyone who claim invention, developing or spreading of the Internet other than the US is living in a fantasy world of delusions.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:29:43 PM PST
by
jveritas
(The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
To: Jordi
The page is from 1995. You can find newer ones. Or do I have to do all the job?? You don't have to do anything Jordi. You just sit there.
We all believe that Europeans invented the internet. Really. We do. And they have a very very impressive space program. Always have.
Those wonderfully inventive, creative and industrious europeans. Is there nothing they can't do?
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:32:01 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Jordi
One more very important thing to add. There is a huge migration of scientific brains from Europe to the US because in the US these scientists are paid much more money, and they have much more funds available for their research. In other word all your brains belong to us.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:33:26 PM PST
by
jveritas
(The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
To: dead
Most Europeans suffer from an acute syndrome of delusions of greatness and self importance. You notice that everything they do, they always have the US in their mind and how they can compete with the US. They are very jealous and emotional about it that it will always lead them to lose big to the US and stay behind the US in every level of economy, military, technology etc...
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12/28/2005 1:36:57 PM PST
by
jveritas
(The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
To: jveritas
The ion engine is still a concept on paper thus it is not an invention until we have a real one.
Only the European ion engine is still a concept on paper.
The US launched Deep Space One in 1998 with an ion propulsion engine built by Hughes Space and Communication. It was the first craft to use an ion drive as its primary propulsion. It successfully rendezvoused with two asteroids and outperformed all expectations on a mission that was extended twice.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:42:08 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: jveritas
Same for the telephone. You say it was invented by Graham Bell didn'you? Inventions are not created from cosmic vacuum. Sometimes there are parallel developments ,other times a "new" invention is simply an add-on to older ones. Usually packing up known technologies with improvements is "inventing". If I were a Nazi nostalgic I would say the US-USSR space race of the 60's started with rocket technology stolen from the Nazis,and in the early years the Soviets made a better use of it (remember Sputnik?).
A better measure of technology developments than listing up inventions is how many things you do and at what cost.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:43:18 PM PST
by
Jordi
("I prefer the heaven for the climate , the hell for the company")
To: jveritas
I should add that I have little doubt that, despite the success of Deep Space One (which was retired in 2001), the Europeans will "invent" the ion propulsion system in a decade or so.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:43:57 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Jordi
Ask yourself this how many times have the europeans sent a man into space without the help of the US or the Russians? Answer: Zero
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