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2007-03-07 Europe

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Posted by mrp 2007-03-07 08:37|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Inshallah, lol.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-07 10:43|| 2007-03-07 10:43|| Front Page Top

#2 This is just as successful as any EUroweenie project (like diplomacy, military operations...)
Let the gloating begin!

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-03-07 10:44|| 2007-03-07 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3 IIRC, I was reading about the problems of every country wanting a piece of the action in Galileo a year ago in GPS World magazine. Also, some folks have figured out the access key, so rather than having to pay to use the system, it can be hacked, so to speak. There goes the revenue, heh.

The US military has bequeathed quite a gift to the world with GPS, but because of the hatred of the EU for the US, they are willing to spend huge sums on something for spite, basically. Airbus A380s, Galileo, Paleo aid, Egypt aid.....must be nice to have money to burn and nobody accountable for spending.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-07 11:21|| 2007-03-07 11:21|| Front Page Top

Becoming more like the HRE every day.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-07 13:38|| 2007-03-07 13:38|| Front Page Top

#5 AP,
What's really amusing here is that the PRC may very well have been hoping to piggyback themselves into Galileo so as to have their own GPS system witout having to cough up for it. And somewhere, the Chinese apparatchik who came up with the idea is having to do some serious explaining...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-03-07 14:56|| 2007-03-07 14:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, Mike K.---The Chicom guy failed to realize that EU committees and consortia rarely converge to a solution and keep bickering, while Chicom committes come to a solution (Political power comes from the barrel of a gun, IIR my little red book Maoism).

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-07 16:57|| 2007-03-07 16:57|| Front Page Top

#7 But I thought it was about as viable as the EU search engine!

Posted by DMFD 2007-03-07 18:25|| 2007-03-07 18:25|| Front Page Top

#8 NO surprise here, as the Euros realistically could afford only afford 10 or less [0<5?] of the satellites by 2008.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-07 22:43|| 2007-03-07 22:43|| Front Page Top

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