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  • #16
    Originally posted by paiktis22
    We need it so we can spy on your business transactions for a change.
    That could be an excuse to throw the money away except for the fact that it doesn't do that.
    I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
    For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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    • #17
      Originally posted by DinoDoc


      That could be an excuse to throw the money away except for the fact that it doesn't do that.
      But of course it doesn't

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      • #18
        Echelon costs a whole heluva lot more than $3 billion, I assure you.

        But this has little to do with Echelon.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #19
          Do it! It looks cool!
          Speaking of Erith:

          "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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          • #20
            Another thing worth mentioning is the plethora of national sattelites which are out there crossing the earth's orbit.

            Greece by itself will have 2 cutting edge military/communications sattelites by 2004.

            Hook up all the national european sattelites and you have a network that only dreams can match

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            • #21
              BTW about Echelon, if Britain, BRITAIN, HELLO BRITAIN? decides to close down all your infastructrure in its soil (the only european country which has accepted her soil to bu used as base for the US Echelion) your system will become much more blind in what regards Europe

              There was an official research about this done by the European Parliement.

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              • #22
                I agree, shut it down. But I think it is some kind of joint project. Personally I think our attention should be turned to projects European rather than our 'loose cannon' allies the US.
                Speaking of Erith:

                "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                • #23
                  It isn't in Britain's nature to openly disagree with the US.

                  Stop trying to jack the thread, Moneypenny.
                  I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                  For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                  • #24

                    how is this a thread jackkking mississipian middle aged secretary?
                    we are talking satelites - expand your horizons

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by paiktis22
                      how is this a thread jackkking mississipian middle aged secretary?
                      If you are going to try your hand at insulting me, it might do you good to spell your insults correctly.
                      I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                      For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by DinoDoc


                        If you are going to try your hand at insulting me, it might do you good to spell your insults correctly.


                        touchy - touchy
                        (and grammatically sensitive no less )

                        edit: ok sorry about the "mississipian"

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                        • #27
                          There is another factor: charge-of-work to European Space Industry, one of few technologic fields where Europe is now dominant.

                          Many times the countries protect theirs industries with a 'technical more advanced regulation' that have few aventages. For example, there was the Law-A, Law-U in Telecommunication

                          But I think that Galileo has enough adventages to do it.

                          (Sorry for my bad english)
                          Trying to rehabilitateh and contribuing again to the civ-community

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                          • #28
                            yaroslav: your English is fine.

                            "one of few technologic fields where Europe is now dominant"

                            Europe, minus Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan is near the bottom of space technology--about 1/3 of the flights that the US does. Galileo would represent about half of all ESA flights, if they are to have a 30-satellite constellation by 2008.
                            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by yaroslav
                              But I think that Galileo has enough adventages to do it.
                              Such as? The ~2.4 meter difference between the two systems hardly seems like enough of an improvement to justify the billions needed to instal it.

                              paiktis22: Mississippian!!!! Stupid boy lover.
                              I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                              For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                              • #30
                                What do number of flights have to do with technological superiority?

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